No point fighting against the world - just accept anything that seems weird or odd and doesn’t match up with how you think it should work. Just go with the flow.
My computer is just a tool for getting things done - it’s not an expression of my personality.
Chefs sharpen their knives, right?
Are you still using the same tools and workflow you used in 2003?
The LAMP stack?
Flash?
Java?
Front Page?
Power PC assembly?
Chefs sharpen their knives regularly, not once every five years.
And this is one of the things that makes me a little wistful as I get older. My computers are like my cars. I remember my first ones, the quest for a bargain or the right parts, and each had its own personality.
Now, they're all blandly similar and are means to an end. Sure, they're better by all objective measures, but I don't have the time to relentless customize them to my liking and imprint them with my personality.
It's hard swimming upstream, but there's a balance.
One thing I'm torn about is Apple's passive-aggressive “natural” scroll direction. It annoyed me a great deal that Apple changed that and chose this word, but it's something I could have adapted to and now have to deal with all Macs that aren't my own.