And the worst thing was that nobody ever used it in our house! It just came with the machine and every attempt we made to rid ourselves of it didn't work. It was like a perpetually self healing app, constantly foiling our clumsy efforts to uninstall it. Because, you see, it knew that we needed it: that our bumbling in Add-Remove Programs was just an accident and that we were fools. Not.

The word processor just plain old hurt my scull. Using the spreadsheet app was like trying to learn hieroglyphics, whilst hanging upside down. The whole experience bore a strange resemblance to moldy sweet potato pie. From a distance it looks interesting and tasty, step closer and you instantly know precisely why you don't want to eat it.

So the point of this rant about Lotus? Lotus Notes Domino 8 is coming back to haunt us, on a Mac near you. Now I'm sure that they will have made a great program, and I guess that the number after Domino, (being 8) suggests that they have previously made 7 versions of the same piece of software. I don't know however, as this is the first time I've checked back in on them while not wearing a ski mask.*

So it can't all be bad surely? The MacTake thinks: You bet it damn well can, but we can live in relative peace for a year before its released for OS X, then the official MacTake verdict will be heavily passed.

Till next time.

Notes:

* I don't actually have a ski mask (nor have I visited Lotus), and no, I've never raided any company HQ buildings whilst shouting "Get a Mac you nubs, leopard is vista 2.0!"). And while I'm in the business of correcting speculation, no I haven't done a rain dance in public yet, and no I don't even know how to do one but I presume it involves shouting at the sky a bit. Oh and yes, I did do that kamikaze barrel run at the enemy base yesterday during the paintball game, I do not have a (brave) identical twin, and yes it also hurt like hell when I got painted a different color by enemy defenders.