Even more Zooooooom!
First, I want to say thank you to all those who responded to yesterday’s post about making a donation to Hawk Wings.
Especially I want to thank the most generous donor, who wants no public recognition. You know who you are! Thanks.
I used some of that money this afternoon to buy an extra gigabyte of RAM for my shiny new MacBook Pro.
Now, the thing really feels supersonic.
I was getting a lot a spinning beach balls of death before. One GB is not enough to run all the apps that I use to blog at once — Photoshop and ecto (both needing Rosetta and sucking lots of memory), NetNewsWire and one web browser, sometimes two (all RAM-hungry apps).
As an added frustration, TextExpander and my other time-saving apps were starved for RAM, stuttering, barely limping along.
Now all that is fixed. My Mac is positively frisky. If your array of apps is anything like mine, I highly recommend investing the extra cash in more memory.
If you missed out on making a donation yesterday but want to, you still can. I am pretty sure that the PayPal button in the sidebar on the front page is open 24/7.
If you want to do a good turn but don’t have any money, head over to X Factor, read about the troubles of Mr Goma 
(Instant Apple Celebrity) and maybe sign the petition to get him a work permit.
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June 2nd, 2006 at 2:52 am
Tim,
Other donation-based sites/organizations like to publicize their donation stats or set goals and show how close they are to those goals. This does two things:
1. It shows people that other people are actually donating.
2. It shows people how their money fits into the “big picture.”
Now, you might think that #1 might convince people NOT to donate (because other people are donating). However, I think #1 has a bigger guilt factor that convinces people to donate to follow suit.
Plus, doing these things shows you’re really serious about the donations. You’re saying that you care about keeping this site up, and you’ll look at donations as a way of helping you do that. I think that sends a good message to potential donors too.
Just a thought.