Category: Macintosh

I’ve been withholding my judgement on Apple’s new browser for a few weeks now. But much as I like some of its features (clever bookmark management, innovative page-loading progress bar, speed), I still suspect its rendering engine is wonky. Major case in point: this site. Only in Safari would the entire right column be invisible. It’s not gone, since you can still mouse over the invisible links and the cursor turns into a finger and shows the links. Very frustrating. I don’t know how many of you are even Mac users, never mind Safari users, but for now, I think I’m sticking with Chimera. That is, if the developers don’t throw in the towel first.

For any super-smart web developer-type people out there, any idea what’s going on?

I can’t believe that I haven’t posted about this yet. On Saturday, Brooke and I took home our new bundle of joy. Yes, we got a new dual-processor G4 867mHz machine. No, we weren’t able to wait, but thanks to everyone who chipped in advice. I’ve been busy trying out all the games that were too demanding for our old system, but I’ll try to find time to write here a bit more. Why not? I can even blog faster with the new system, right? 🙂

Well, after four years, my beige G3 desktop computer has finally given up the ghost. The timing is terrible. We’re going to be paying for our wedding for a few months yet. Also, I’m not sure whether to hang on until Macworld San Francisco in January to hear about new G4 models. For now, I’m chugging along on my two year old iBook. If you’ve emailed me in the past few weeks, and haven’t heard back, it might be because all of my messages (and addresses) are on the dead box. Try me again…

Oh, and Mac folks, any suggestions as to whether I should add to my debt now or wait for bigger and better?

Wow. There’s a great feature on Apple’s web site about Cosmic Encounter Online. I played this obsessively when it was a board game. I can’t wait to check it out online.

Apple’s Product Manager for OS X keeps a weblog! (via torrez)