The Lair

So I have a new gadget. Have had it for a week or two now (has it just been a fortnight? It seems much longer, somehow) and I am getting used to the interface.

Or at least trying to. My distaste for the Mac OSX interface is well known. Just works isn’t good enough if I can’t shape the experience to fit my own quirks – and that’s a complaint I have with both OSX and the Gnome DE.

But no – my most recent complaint is a lot more trivial.

You know that thing about mouse gestures? I hate it. Always have, because I don’t think I have the motor control or the patience to draw swirly patterns on a monitor with a mouse. The iPod Touch takes this one step further. The new gadget seems to rely on finger painting swirly patterns on the touch screen in lieu of you know, an actual interface for such actions.

So far, I have been unable to zoom into a page without much swearing, haven’t been able to move back and forth on a page without cussing out Steve J and his ilk…

As they’d say on a certain social website – (angry)