Peter Wooley's Blog

Last night I became the proud owner of the newest OS for my Apple PowerBook. With 10.4, named after the ferocious Tiger, some shiny new features have redefined the way I compute. Spotlight, by far the prettiest new feature, takes command of indexing the hard drive and searching your entire system on-the-fly. It is quite fast, faster than I had thought it would be. Next would be Safari 2.0 and its awesome ability to parse RSS data. No longer will I be using Firefox on my Mac. On the PC, Firefox all the way, but the way Safari presents the RSS feeds is too good to pass up. As opposed to just having a Live Bookmark or the like, it gives you a beautifully-designed page complete with gradient blue header, the name of the site, the number of posts and a sidebar with several functions for making viewing easier, including search. It’s just… wonderful.

Several other aspects make it wonderful too, but I believe most people are aware of Tiger, so I feel I don’t need to delve into it. Aside from that, I’m one happy Mac-boy!

Alas! My PowerBook was just stuck in the arms of a formidable opponent! Rather, it was surrounded by the arms of a girl who quietly stole my Lab Computer. I needed to run down to my car (in the garage below), so I left up a browser as well as my PowerBook on the desk in front of the keyboard. Who would be so unwise as to take that, assuming it was an open computer? I waited for several minutes and quietly sat near the laptop and the thief. It was a grueling 6 minutes past that and it was free! Oh, sweet freedom. Thankfully, the PowerBook is safe and in my custody once again. What an adventure.