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Heck, even now, I am mostly writing this to note that I am still alive.

Of course, a lot has happened since my last posting... I upgraded to OS X Leopard, got a Wacom tablet, bought the MacHeist bundle, and broke my leg snowboarding... but of course, none of that is worthy of a blog post, right?

Ok, so maybe it is...

Wow... I like it. Very well done, and nice in just about all the important places. Quicklook is wonderful, and really speeds things up, I just have to get used to hitting the spacebar instead of double-clicking. Coverflow in finder is a feature that I haven't really used as much as I figured, as I generally use column view these days. The new Finder interface is definitely awesome.

Time Machine, although nice in its ease of setup and use, can be annoying in some ways... The lack of preferences bugs the control-geek in me.

Spaces is cool, and quite useful, though I haven't really had much opportunity to exploit it fully as of yet.

My whole system does seem to be noticeably faster as well.

Complaints: Leopard seems to be a bit less stable with programs than Tiger; I've had a few more application crashes than before, though the system itself seems to be more stable overall. Stacks is nice for the downloads folder, but lousy for almost everything else.

So, I got a Wacom tablet recently, and I really like it. It definitely is helpful for anything visual design oriented, though it can be tricky finding a place to store the pen when you have to type something quickly.

I'll probably write more on this later...

As you may have already known, I participated in the very fun MacHeist over winter break, and ended up purchasing the awesome bundle. Definitely worth the price.

I've recently completed two more sites: http://chazymusictheatre.org and http://ncachurch.org.