Tue 30 Oct 2007
Today was a rather quiet and peaceful day. Visits (limited to 4) went well today, even though one was to a fan of the New York Mets baseball squad, a gentleman who just doesn’t like anything to do with the Yankees, including their fans. I was kind to him.
But the day was quiet. The telephone didn’t ring off the hook. My cell phone didn’t ring at all – a rare day, to say the least. No text messages. A few emails came in that required thoughtful responses.
The only real blemish to the day was that my wireless router went down. After working with it for a while, and not knowing exactly what I did, it started to work again.
I did work with the new Mac OS X Leopard this morning. What an operating system! Microsoft should take some hints from Apple on how to do these OS things. People I know who upgraded earlier this year to Microsoft’s Vista operating system are cursing up a storm. It is way too buggy and requires hundreds upon hundreds of dollars of computer upgrades. And the cost - over $300 for the so-called premium package with all the buggy bells and whistles.
Here in Leopard, everything just seems to work. What I really like about this Mac OS X upgrade – Spaces. This is a terrific addition. It allows for separate work “spaces” on your computer whereby the programs that use for particular tasks are open and ready to go. For example, I have set up a space where the programs I use in church all week are all there. Word processing, database management, presentations, and music (yes, I listen to music) are all open in a particular ‘space.’ Another space I set up is where all my communication applications are moving. Apple Mail, iChat, Google Reader (though, I don’t know for how long since Apple Mail’s latest upgrade has an RSS reader in it), and Google Talk (the windowed version) are set up together. I switch from space to space seamlessly.
Apple just does things right.
Well, it is after 5:00pm. I’m going to work on the blog later on this evening – want to put up some more blog links on the right side. Otherwise, it is going to be – God willing – a peaceful and quiet night here on Grand Street.