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I use both Macs and PCs with Windows Vista or standard Windows. Each system has its strengths. I could never accomplish all of my musical projects with the same alacrity if I used Windows. However, generally speaking, there's a lot more software out there for Windows than there is for Macs.
I think those sorts of differences distinguish between the systems more importantly, since they concern everyday use; whereas security matters in most cases do not.
It's not an issue I am particularly concerned about, though. I understand that you don't prefer Macs.
Another bit of miscellany, if I may. If you haven't seen this letter already, it's worth reading (sorry, I forget the command for embedding links within Haloscan or like screens):
thepage.time.com/text-of-letter-from-wright-to-
the-new-york-times/
terrette, a practical matter first... here's how to do links, in a comment or in any other HTML source:
<a href="http://link.com/etc">description here</a>
[corrected to insert missing slash - SB]
It saves me some work if you use that form: on occasion, a long link can cause formatting problems in the left column of the YDD. This one did not.
Like most computer professionals, I have no brief for PCs, Macs or UNIX/Linux systems. I'll tap on whatever a client sets in front of me.
That said, many, many Mac enthusiasts are sure they have the greatest computer in the world, and that anyone who voluntarily uses anything else is just stupid. It's an arrogance I find hard to take.
Over the years, I've found Macs to have problems at about the same rate as every other kind of computer, and being who I am, I'm not slow to point that out.
Added: terrette, I didn't know about your musical involvement. Let us know, please. Most musicians and composers I know use Macs, for good and sufficient reason.
Thanks, Steve. I noted the command for future use. In addition to avoiding formatting problems, it makes the comments appear succinct.
About blogging, I will surely let you know if and when I resume. I have embarked on the thorough study of kanji, that is, the Chinese-like characters used in Japanese, and that will surely monopolize my mental life for at least another year. (I don't remember if the word "kanji" is common knowledge in non-Japanese English.)
About music, I play all sorts of stringed instruments. Don't have much of a voice, though. Wish I could sing like Judee Sill.
"(I don't remember if the word "kanji" is common knowledge in non-Japanese English.)" - terrette
The term is known to me, and I have a vague mental image associated with it, but I can't say I really know the particulars. I've studied the representations of international character sets on computers, and the workings of Unicode, but because certain components are not installed on my primary computer, your site shows me lots of question marks. Ironically, though not surprisingly, sites containing Arabic texts are not similarly afflicted; those character sets are installed in Windows XP by default.
My semiprofessional music career was in "early music," a generic term for European-style music from about the 14th to the 18th centuries. Musicians with a scholarly bent generally enjoy the combination of scholarship and instrumental or vocal skills needed to perform such music. I was fortunate to be one of the founding members of Houston Baroque Ensemble (~1980-1989), not the first but one of the earliest serious performing groups of 17th- and 18th-century European and European-derived South American music in Houston. I managed the group for three of its last four subscription seasons. One really has to love the music to put up with the crap. 
Afterthought: I can't sing worth a damn, either. When I was a graduate teaching fellow in music theory, I taught theory and sight-singing to freshmen and sophomores; they loved the fact that I had an awful voice but sang in tune, because it made clear to them that the goal was to accomplish a free interchange between written and sounded music... not to be a wonderful singer.
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