Snow Leopard

I upgraded my computer to Snow Leopard over the weekend. I’d read all sorts of favorable reviews (TUAW offers a roundup), and I found them convincing enough to plunk down $30 bucks. On the whole, the changes to OS X are small (at least for my purposes). Aside from manipulating my photos, and sometimes editings mp3s and videos, I don’t do a whole lot of media-related stuff on my computer. I do find a couple of the new features in Snow Leopard to be awesome. I like being able to view pdfs right from the folder without having to open preview and I love that transferring data is appreciably faster. Still, and I don’t know if it’s just my computer, I discovered that a few things are not working the way I’d hoped they would.

• Saft doesn’t give me an error about not working with Safari 4, but I don’t see the Saft menu when I go to options.
• Function + delete isn’t working as a Wind0ws-style delete for me, and it’s driving me nuts.
• Some of the Multiclutch functions that I programmed for Safari 4 in Leopard don’t seem to be working.

I actually only noticed most of these things last night, and I didn’t look into them too much, because I was finishing up a pair of socks (which came out beautifully, I know you were wondering). I’m not going to be home tonight until late, so I probably won’t get to it until tomorrow at the earliest. A quick glance at some Mac blogs showed that while people are definitely having problems related to upgrading , nobody has mentioned the problems that I’m having. Yay for being uniquely troubled!

In case you have already upgraded to Snow Leopard, MacLife offers a list of 100 tips, tricks, and features that are new to this version of OS X.

Julie & Julia

I saw this movie over the weekend and really enjoyed it. I think that Amy Adams is awesome, but the real star of this movie is Meryl Streep, who is delightful as Julia Child. And Stanley Tucci! This is probably the first time I saw him in a role where he did not give me the heeby-jeebies. Warning: watching this movie will probably leave you very hungry.

Relevant review:

A consummate entertainment that echoes the rhythms and attitudes of classic Hollywood, it’s a satisfying throwback to those old-fashioned movie fantasies where impossible dreams do come true. – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

A woman’s prerogative

I keep changing the theme of this blog, mostly because it doesn’t look on the screen the way I imagine it in my head. I’m pretty much crap at coding, so I’m probably not going to make my own theme anytime soon. I really liked some of my old themes, but I think that six months of looking at the same background is pretty much my limit.