I've been blogging since early 2002 and am amazed that people continue to log in and check it out!
What you'll find here is my personal thoughts on family, technology, art and other things that happen to grab me.
We're counting down the week until the release of Apple's Mac OS X 10.5, otherwise known as Leopard. Judging by the feature list, this is going to be an excellent update which should go a long way to improving many aspects of the Mac workflow. I know a lot of human interface commentators have a number of complaints about the direction the UI is going but it appears that Leopard has a lot of improvements "under the hood" that should allow developers to ship applications with a more uniform appearance than 10.4 Tiger.
With an operating system as mature as Mac OS X, there's a limit as to the number of "new" things that the majority of users would actually benefit from. For me, the key highlights are:
[a] Spaces [b] Stacks [c] Live Previews
I know lots of folks who are raving about Time Machine. I'll most likely learn to like this once I have solved the issue of having my hard disk drives physically broken rather than accidentally deleting files :-)
As a test, I ordered my copy of Leopard from the online AppleStore and we'll see if it arrives on the 26th or ships on the 26th and arrives several days later.
Either way, the combination of Leopard and the rumoured new portable will probably trigger a hardware upgrade this side of Xmas 2007.
