This blog sucks

Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to start a blog and remove all doubt. Just over a year ago, I compiled a list of links to commentary on an interview given by Bill Gates to Steven Levy, where Mr. Gates got, well, flustered. The Mac community, myself included, pounced all over it and even came a bit "unhinged."

Yes, I went too far and in hindsight, said some particularly ridiculous things, and the only thing that is sad is that it's taken me over a year to acknowledge it.

I've always felt that Bill Gates is Peter Keating and Steve Jobs is Howard Roark, but now that Gates has proven himself to be Peter Keating, I feel little pleasure in pointing it out. The only regret I have about all of this is that I didn't do a detailed comparison of those characters earlier.

Well for the record, I no longer feel that way and I only regret having ever intended to make the comparison. There is a scene in the Fountainhead where Peter Keating breaks down and tells Howard Roark how much he hates him. That is the scene which I ineffectively compared to Bill Gates' "moment". In the Fountainhead, Howard Roark is the real thing and Peter Keating is little more than a poser. Bill Gates is no poser, and the fact that I suggested otherwise says more about me than it does about him.

Gates is a driven, technological visionary who "got" the potential of software early and built what nobody can dispute is the most important technology company of our time.

Jobs is cultural visionary, a man way ahead of his time who, has slowed down just enough to let everyone else catch up, so that he can take advantage of new realities emerging in technology and entertainment.

Bill and Steve are both Fountainheads, just of different types. They are the left brain and right brain of the computer industry, the classic and romantic, the yin and yan.

I am an artist and blogger who hadn't considered the repercussions of posting and ill-conceived rant.