OK, I've had three days to play around with Tiger and am really loving it! I've managed to restrain myself a bit, but I can totally see how easy it would be to go completely Widget-mad. But, as there is limited real estate on my old 15" (iThink) iMac screen I have to make decisions about what Widgets are Important. So far, that would be the iTunes, GMail and iCal Events widget, plus one for my Backpack.

I'm also getting to play with some stuff that I can't play with on my Jaguar OS (either because programs were for 10.3+ or they never worked right in Jaguar). Like Ecto for blogging. I could never get it to work quite right in 10.2 but it's running a dream here. I'm poking around and tweaking things here and there. I still need to figure out the Technorati tags and how best to use them (or not use them at all).

I've downloaded the latest BBEdit and can do a 30-day trial while my bank account recovers from the upgrade (and rent and tuition and...). And at some point I'll take Colloquy for a whirl in IRC.

The bad news is that the Airport card died again. It worked for 3 days. The good news is that the mystery over authentication failure with the dial-up account is solved. Evidently, all these times I've changed my password...I really haven't! It's a long, stupid story and I'll spare the details. I'm glad the ethernet port isn't blown, though (as the Genius suggested). The frustrating part about this, though, is that I had left a message with my ISP's tech support Saturday night. Now, of course I didn't expect a call back during a holiday weekend, but I sure as hell should have heard from them before I had to phone them at 4:40 p.m. today. Very, very frustrating! As this is becoming a pattern with them, I'm guessing they don't want me to be their customer for much longer.

Now I'm off to go figure out Automator and which F-key trips up Expose' (I accidentally hit a key combo yesterday that brought it up, but don't know what keys made it happen). Ah...an F-key experiment turns up the F-10 key for Expose'. Good to know.


NOW PLAYING: All Downhill From Here from the album "Insignificance" by Jim O'Rourke

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