Apple is making me sad. I’m a Windows user. But I used to love the sleek and downright artistic design of Mac’s browser Safari on my Vista. That is when the Windows version used to look exactly like the Mac version.

Safari 3 for Windows

But for some reason Apple has decided to give the Windows version of Safari a look that is more familiar to Windows users, as they put it. But instead, they have massacred the look and now Safari for Windows looks like the mutated child that would be born if the two operating systems mated. Seriously. Look!

Safari 4 for Windows

Oh the humanity.

The worst thing is: the browser still crashes often and fails to work properly for some Web 2.0 features. For someone like me who cares for how things look as well as their functionality, there really doesn’t seem to be any reason to upgrade to the latest mutant version, aka version 4 (for Windows).

I am really hoping Apple would bring back the Mac look for Safari on Windows. There was nothing wrong with it. But there is much wrong with the current v.4’s strange Chrome wannabe appearance. It is, quite frankly, disturbingly unApple.

In my opinion, Apple should always hang onto the integrity of their GUI design, even for apps they make for Windows.

“A bus station is where a bus stops. a train station is where a train stops. on my desk i have a work station…”

“To be or not to be. — Shakespeare; To do is to be. — Nietzsche; To be is to do. — Sartre; Do be do be do. — Sinatra”

Above quotes gotten from http://identi.ca/group/q

Also..

Got to deal with this: “Suffering does not make you special” http://bloodandmilk.org/?p=880

AERIAL bomb attacks that kill civilians in Iraq are as lethal as suicide bombers on foot. Madelyn Hicks of Kings College London and colleagues  analysed 60,481 deaths between March 2003 and March 2008 from the Iraq Body Count (IBC), a project that records violent civilian deaths. Suicide bombers on foot killed nearly seven times as many civilians as aerial bomb attacks (without ground fire). However, where an aerial bombing did kill civilians the number of deaths was comparable (The New England Journal of Medicine, vol 360, p 1585).

While no one is  suggesting the US and its allies intentionally target civilians, the study highlights the indiscriminate nature of aerial bombs. “It is a predictable consequence of using this type of weapon,” says study author Michael Spagat of the Royal Holloway, University of London. “Once you understand that, you can’t completely say this is unintentional, in that it is understood that this is going to happen.”