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We are back in London and I am playing with my new powerbook. It is a lot of fun and I am generally impressed with how wonderfully it all fits together. It's not without it's bumps (although many are just me unlearning old habits from other platforms). The iApps are pretty cool. I love iPhoto but I can see it will not scale very far (I have about 1000 pictures in it and it's already dragging), on the other hand, I transfered my whole cd collection to iTunes and it is lightening fast. I do miss having a graphical version of emacs though.

Naturally, my website looks wrong in IE on the Mac so I will have to strugle some more with the <li> based menu bar again. It's funny that the Mac version of IE would have problems that the windows version did not have (at least at this level). It probably springs from the same place as other inconsistencies in Microsoft software as described by Adam Barr in a recent Kuro5hin article:

Furthermore, some Microsoft groups have always had a bit of a bias against having too many dependencies. The idea was get it done and don't worry about other people in the company. That's why different applications wrote their own Print dialogs, and why networking between Windows NT and Windows 9x isn't a seamless as it could be. That attitude helped shipped some products sooner, but it permeated outside the company too.