darkest_light | random things

Ack! I can control iTunes *from* Phoenix... that's crazy. Now I know what that odd little bar at the bottom was for. Score one point for Phoenix. I really miss iJournal though.... no matter how many cool things Phoenix does, it simply cannot be as cool as iJournal... Even though it has my icon show up in the window. Even though I can link to other users I miss my iJournal. wah.

Speaking of random macuserness, G5! It makes me large-eyed and longing. OS 10.3 does not make me large-eyed and longing, though :(. I shake my head at them for taking the OS in entirely the wrong direction. They are moving away from the very concepts that were what made them cool in the first place... I like the current finder without its becoming an iTunes clone, thank you very much. That and moving even more to the metallic look makes me sad. They should pick up the hint and notice that the icky metallic look is v. unpopular compared to the pretty stripey look and run with their strengths. (note my professional terminology) Honestly, the only thing I like of 10.3 from what I've seen is the font book, and I don't even see much of a use for it, even though it would be very fun. Oh, it's also cool that they're restoring labels, as they were fun in the pre-OS X world. It just makes me sad that they're moving in this direction... wah.

10.2 is so cool. I mean, Rendezvous is maybe one of the best things that has happened to macintosh (at least it is when I'm at MHC... it's kind of meaningless when I'm not on a network). Oh, the new sharing thing in 10.3 is cool... I am v. excited about being able to share with PCs and eliminating the second-to-last negative side of Macs. The last being the lack of action games, which has never really bothered me and isn't so much of an issue anymore as there are now plenty of games for the Mac.

I'm mostly just sad about the metallic look, which I know is v. superficial of me. Maybe there will be options?

Tomorrow I am off to the Bay Area to visit family. I am v. excited about it... yay. Plus we're going to stop in Santa Rosa and I will get new pants... yay. I currently have one unripped pair of pants.

Also, I would like to mention, I am very proud of the new, assertive Molly. The Molly who can talk to strangers on the phone. The Molly who is not, in fact, unemployed, but rather self-employed... go me. I have decided to stop thinking of my intermittant employers as employers but as clients. Plus "I'm doing freelance graphic design" sounds much better than "I'm unemployed, and occasionally designing stuff for people"