Monthly Archives: April 2005

guess I better go Tiger-hunting

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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (37):

Mac OS X started its life as the most ambitious consumer operating system ever produced. Apple abandoned its existing, 16-year-old code base for something entirely new. Out of the gate, Mac OS X was a technical curiosity with few applications, and a performance dog. A scant four years later, Tiger is a powerhouse that combines the best Unix has to offer with a feature-rich, user-friendly interface. The increasingly capable bundled applications are just icing on the cake. We’ve come a long way, baby.

Looks awfully good.

getting their attention

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We invited our school board members and administrators to a meeting tonight to hear what we have to say about their proposed school closures. 233 people came from the school community and the neighborhood, with presentations and open comment.

I think it went extremely well: the board members et al who came should now understand that we are not a building, but a community. It’s up to us to further their education and ensure they understand why closing a school like ours is not an option.

now that’s what I call a deal: a Mac mini for US$370

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If you’re a mac geek thinking of buying Tiger as soon as it’s available…..:

Backup Brain:

If that’s you, wait a second, and think about it this way: if you buy just Tiger, its list price is $129. But if (after Friday) you buy a Mac mini instead, it’s $499 — which means that you’re really only paying $370 for the mini.
Think about that for a second: $370 for a Mac. Does anyone still say that Macs are too expensive?



The only caveat here is make sure what you’re buying has tiger on it, so you avoid the track-down-get-upgrade-shipped-delay-install hassle.

Well, now, that makes it all very interesting.