Squawks of the Parrot

The first big Panther Gotcha

Well, I broke down and bought Pather. It's pretty darned cool and seems snappier for many things. And, of course, Exposé is damned cool, triggering my magpie tendencies. I do like all the rounded and shadow stuff, and the fact that the crappy metal can be turned off in the finder windows makes me very happy.

Up until now, I've not had any huge issues with it. I had to relink Emacs, but that's no big surprise--I have to do that after every sub-point release anyway. Got me why, but I just keep the source around. I should probably resync from CVS and see if that's fixed, but this version works so I'm hesitant to break it, or toss out the 500M or so of stuff to make room for another full rebuild. CamelBones broke as well, which puts something of a damper on working on the infamous book, but it's not like I'm moving too fast there anyway. But...

Powerpoint is only semi-functional. "So what?" you cry, "It's a Microsoft product and they're icky! Keynote is better!" While that may be true, I own Powerpoint, which is more than I can say for Keynote. This wouldn't be so much of a problem if I wasn't presenting next Saturday at the little languages workshop. (Or if I actually had the presentation written....)

Ah, well, hopefully next time I'm in network range I'll find there's an update. It's still mostly functional, so there's not that much of an excuse to slack off....