Hello folks, it's Willie again. I'll be continuing to fill in for my good friend Bill Palmer for a little while here on billpalmer.net while Bill takes care of whatever it is he's got going on right now. First things first: after doing some thinking about yesterday's column, I would like to apologize to the following people:
- Tiger Woods
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Jon Rubenstewart
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everyone who read my last column
Okay, now that we've got that out of the way, I want to get down to the heart of the matter. This is something that has been nagging at me for several months now, in fact since Apple first announced AirPort Express. I mean, does anyone else think it's funny that first Outlook Express disappears from the Mac platform, and then AirPort Express shows up just a year or two later? There are just too many similarities there. Something's up. First of all, and it took me awhile to finally figure this out, but they both have the word "Express" in their name. That's just weird.
Second, there's this thing with the vowels. You see, the word "Outlook" goes vowel-vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel-vowel-consonant, and the word "AirPort" almost does the same thing. In fact, if the letter "r" were a vowel, they would be identical. And for that matter, the letter "r" has always kind of reminded me of a vowel, so let's just pretend. And lastly, there's this thing with the color white. AirPort Express is made of white plastic. Outlook Express had a mostly-white icon. I'm telling you, there's something up here. I don't really know what.
Alright, now that I've written a full column and a half, I think it's about time I go to the mailbag for some reader feedback:
"I read your nice fill-in article on Bill Palmer.net and I have to say that although I wasn't terribly edified or educated about any of the topics you discussed, I was certainly entertained and amused, so thanks for filling in and at least posting something for me to read and have a nice laugh!" - S.P.
Well, all I can say is thank you S.P., at least I think so. I don't really know what "edified" means. I don't really remember writing anything about anyone named Ed or anything. Also, I don't really remember writing anything funny yesterday. But I'll take your word for it that I am humorous. Perhaps I can become a talk show host or something. See, if you'd read yesterday's column, you'd be getting that joke right now. It's what I like to call an "inside" joke. Just don't try it when you're outside. AirPort Express, I mean.
I hope everyone thinks my second-ever column went OK, although I hear that Bill just might be thinking about coming back sooner than later. It seems he's got a story to tell about yet another Switcher, but wants to see how it plays out before writing about it.
Feel free to let me know how I did today in my second column. Tomorrow I'm going to write about how the Macintosh universe needs more of the color yellow.
