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The best place to keep up with me is Fix Your Thinking

This is my editorial website on Apple Computer related drama.

Looks like my last comment on Slashdot as "adzoox" is about food.

Slashdot - it was nice knowing ye!

Just 10 more posts and I will have met my goal of 1000 posts on Slashdot - I haven't been keeping a journal and have stopped posting as much as I used to due to the piss poor attitudes and lack of mod ability here on slashdot - I was banned permantly from receiving mod status.

Also, it seems every now and then - Slashdot posts stories that are either old hat (reported weeks ago) or that they shouldn't. They are so concerned about pushing a political agenda here that they often put no forethought into the wording of the stories they place on the front page. It has alienated me and MANY MANY others. I have moved on, and only occasionally check the headlines here anymore.

Anyways - I hope all that used to stay in contact with me are doing well.

Check out my BLOG sometime - Jackwhispers BLOG

I'm getting tired of these analysts saying Apple is gaining marketshare because of the iPod and a little because of the iMac.

These are a few of the REAL reasons:

- MacMini / iBook G4
- Lower prices on Macs
- Consistent positive customer service rankings
- Consistent quality and user experience
- More people finding that Apple support is immense on net
- Stores
- Clean stores
- More stores
- No handwritten signs, no gimmicky sales
- People are honestly seeking alternatives to Microsoft
- Linuxheads are finding that the MacOS is just as powerful
- Community/Grassroots support
- Artist bandwagoning / idol worship

I discuss a little of this in the current JackWhispers article

Hi everyone ... I really need your help - so PLEASE respond to this journal entry.

I am trying to find a good insurance company that would insure Apple laptops and iPods. I would like to solicit them for advertising on Jackwhispers. I have a good story coming up about Apple computer theft and would like to have an advertiser in place for this article as a recommendation for the people reading the story.

I tried to Google laptop insurance and notebook insurance and came up with only UK insurance. I contacted all of them - but I don't feel I can charge UK advertisers the same as USA advertisers. I will consider placing ads for both.

I want to integrate this tory in to the stolen hardware registry that I started up a month and a half ago.

A couple of notes about JackWhispers:

  - I'm now getting about 54,000+ hits a month

  - The MacMice story has received 240,000 hits since it's debut on June 23 2004

  - The JW BLOG has received 114 comments in 3 months