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So now that things have calmed down a little bit, I finally had time to install Leopard on the Mac Pro this weekend. I know I’m a bit late to the party, but here are a few quick thoughts so far…
The Good:

Time Machine — syncs happily to the 500GB internal drive I installed last […]

I was pleasantly surprised tonight to discover that the Harmony folks have a pretty decent pre-set profile for Apple TV, so instead of an evening full of tedious Googling and button-learning, I had everything working in a few brief minutes, and I’m back to one-remote bliss–it even manages to put the Apple TV to sleep […]

I’m really excited by the amount of progress I’ve made over the last couple of weekends, hacking away at what for now is known as Shindig, a group management blog/calendar app written against TurboGears. Its primary purpose is to be something easier and faster for me to maintain than ClePy’s current Plone site. […]

Dang, it’s suddenly turning out to be a great week! In brief:

After a couple miserable days of near-100-degree temperatures, the weather has cooled off and is now downright awesome.
Got my monitor back from Apple (no thanks to DHL, who apparently don’t even believe in leaving slips at the door when they ignore the “no […]

Naturally, right at the height of the iPhone hooplah, the USB ports on the back of my 23″ Apple Cinema Display would decide to die a sad and lonely death.
I woke up this morning to find that neither my keyboard nor mouse (the USB devices attached to the back of the ACD) would wake Serenity […]