Category: General

Comet Holmes is right in front of our house at dusk — we’ve seen it twice. Worth checking out. It just looks like a star to the naked eye but it’s still very cool.

If I had a tripod I’d try and take a picture of it.

I stood in line and bought Leopard at the Apple Store. Just now finished installing it. I’ll be recording reactions in this blog entry.

• PRETTY!!!!
• Apple Mail includes an RSS reader? Huh. Like putting one in Safari for Tiger wasn’t enough? I wonder if they took the one in Safari back out, or if the get to fight to be your RSS reader.
• See-thru menu bar is indeed annoying.
• PRETTY!!!!
• Central location for Downloads with easy accessibility: Nice.
• Remember what I said about Gutsy Gibbon being a credible contender as a cool OS for an Intel macbook? as of today, it ain’t.
• Quicksilver displays an icon in the Dock whether you want it to or not. Huh. Hope the Quicksilver wizards fix that.
• MacPorts’ gimp.app doesn’t work anymore. sigh I’ll probably have to rebuild all my macports stuff.
• Cover Flow in Finder windows: this is surprisingly cool. I never used Cover Flow in iTunes, but in finder windows it rocks. Something I did with Cover Flow that I wouldn’t have done otherwise… I went through my Applications folder and threw away a couple dozen applications I have virtually never used and never will use. The ease of browsing around in Cover Flow made that an easy task in a way that it wouldn’t have been with other finder views.
• How come I can’t command-double click on URLs in terminal windows and have them open in the browser anymore?
• Oh nooo! Mike’s Cards Lite, which is like crack to me, has weird colors and looks terrible on Leopard! I’ll have to stick with PySol…
• why did ‘cupsd’ totally whack the CPU for about 30 seconds after I printed something?…

Oh, I did get one of those Leopard T-shirts, but they only had one size, so I think I’m gonna let one of my six-year-olds wear it.

Via BoingBoing.net, Oblomovka describes a terrible, terrible public service Flash site designed to get people in Britain to stop carrying knives around and carving each other up with them.

Me, I think they should have just gone with the classic.

OK, I just toasted the 5G Ubuntu partition on the MacBook. It’s awesome, but I’ve already got a pretty nice OS on this thing, and I’m gonna have a nicer one next week if I can get ahold of Leopard. I had my fun, but life’s too short and all that.

OVERCOMPENSATING: The Journal Comic With a Seething Disdain for Reality.:

“Currently I’m for Kucinich, but in the event everyone in America somehow doesn’t suddenly pick up about 30 IQ points, Obama is my next favorite.”