upgrades

On Windows, they terrify me. On Linux, they don't terrify me, but they require prior technical knowledge and expertise.

On Macs, however, they just happen. I could be technically illiterate and still smoothly upgrade my Mac.

Today I upgraded my iBook to Panther. I had never upgraded to Jaguar, since I was living abroad when it came out, and by the time I got back to the U.S. it made more sense to wait for Panther.

I'm impressed. Panther is slick and fast. I haven't installed the developer tools yet, but it's awfully tempting. I want to write me some software!

Meanwhile, I've been trying out some new blog-reading software, NetNewsWire. I like it better than BlogLines so far, though, unlike BlogLines, it's not free.

Once again, however, I'm puzzled by the number of blogs that I read that don't include a news feed. Do other blog-hosting sites charge for an RSS feed?

I'm not hung up about a feed like some of my friends, who won't read blogs that don't have feeds, but blogreaders are awfully convenient.

Anyhow. Back to Panther. It's good. Yay for the engineers and designers at Apple.