The last few days have seen me giving absolutely huge amounts of advice to James after he acquired a new PowerBook (G4 1.5Ghz 15″).

One of the hardest things to do has been migrating all the email and calendar data from Outlook on the PC into the Mac.

This is mainly due to Microsoft’s attempts to lock its current users into there software by only allowing export to Microsoft’s own filetypes and none of the more general inter-compatible filetypes such as Mbox a unix standard.

This issue is compounded by the fact that Microsoft supports many different formats including mbox for import, so they obviously have an idea how the other format files work. How hard would it be for them to write that code for export, it would literally be a reverse of the import code with read’s and write’s reversed.

This annoyance is feit by many fellow mac “Switchers” that have come from windows systems, and is quite likely keeping some people from purchasing their first mac.

I also got a reworking of my hair today, namely a haircut. Its much shorter, so it should last for a little bit longer than my last cut.

I don’t want to end up looking like this guy that was in there while i was, also getting a haircut. The last time he had had his hair cut was the day before his school photo’s at the start of term 1 (about 4 months). It was seriously huge and i wish i had a camera there to get a photo of him for you guy’s to see.

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