Monday, November 17, 2003
Just installed Panther - Apple's latest upgrade to Mac OS X (V. 10.3 for the initiated) ... a few weeks ago, my SuperDrive died and when Panther was released, I couldn't install it. After suffering deep depression for a few days, I grabbed a friend's Powerbook, hooked mine up to it via Firewire and seamlessly installed Panther. Everything works like a faster dream ... love Expose, Preview's speed, and other refinements to the core OS. Thank you Steve, for giving us back Labels, something you shouldn't have ever taken away in the first place, make that 149 new features ... Unsanity's ClearDock died on me, even though I installed the new Pantherized version. Have now switched to TransparentDock - which has a bunch of other nifty features ... The other thing that died - major regrets, was PTHClock, a nifty piece of freeware, hugely superior to Apple's menubar clock. Anyway, am trying FuzzyClock which says 'fuzzy' things like "five past one", "nearly two", etc.What else is up? Going to the city just outside Pakistan, a.k.a. Islamabad, for a workshop ... The World Summit on the Information Society ... hoping fervently for engaging dialog on the use of technology in education and for the development of civil society.
Am drowning in a sea of reading material ... can't remember the feeling one used to get after finishing a book. Anyway, in my bathroom and on my bedside table are the following ... (here comes the inevitable list)
1. Branded
2. The ClueTrain Manifesto
3. Fortune - last two issues
4. Understanding Comics - The Invisible Art
5. The Scientist in the Crib
6. Take It Personally - How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World
7. Polaroids from the Dead
8. Shampoo Planet
Have lived a lifetime over the last few weeks - my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer and between doctors, hospitals, labs, and whatnot, each day has presented a never-ending stream of emotional, physical and mental challenges. The saga continues and life goes on ...
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