In Plain Sight

Hating Monday Mornings

One of the great things about being a born again cyclist is that you get to see things that you haven't been paying attention to for awhile. For example, the slogan on the side of Goodwill trucks which says something to the effect: "GIVING PEOPLE THE CHANCE TO HATE MONDAY MORNINGS."

The message is manifestly one of enslavement. Give us your liberty and we'll give you our trash!

Safari still broken

I don't know about you but I just filed my first crash report on the new Safari. Wot? It's been released about an hour or so? Yep. It locked while I was viewing a TED VID, spinning beach ball followed by a spinning HD (suggests a memory leak). POS!

Apple's Leopard Sucks

For the record Mac OS X Leopard is making my life miserable.

Just because I am not writing about it here - frankly I have better things to do - does not mean that the early problems have gone away. My particular pain is the irritating failures of the suite of native applications like mail, address book and calendar.

These failures are typically failures to integrate. On a daily basis I am irritated that despite my preference setting mail insists on placing my signature below all quoted text.

I know that Apple will complain that the failure of Oxygen to integrate with Spaces (Oxygen is a Java application) is not their fault but there are multiple applications that fail to switch when you click on their icon in the dock. You end up with the application menu in the finder but the windows in some other space and you have to search.

Safari on Leopard crashes all the time. I fill out those crash reports for Apple but frankly I am becoming more and more frustrated. Crashes appear to happen mostly when I try to play video.

My intuition tells me that many of the crashes are threading issues. It feels like some arbitrary rapid click to another app will kill the thing.

I've had to reset my Mac with a hard reset many times, way too many times. I don't have the time to detail all the problems here.

None of these things happened on Tiger and honestly there is little good cause for me to stay with Leopard. I keep hoping that the next update will fix all these problems. They don't. It's just a lot of little things. I know the underlying structure is sound, but the front end has been broken in the Leopard release. So I really am seriously considering a return to Tiger. Really. Really!

Shame on you Apple.