System upgrade
Aha! What's this nice shiny package that's just come through the post? What's this brushed-metal 'X' symbol about seven inches high sitting smugly amidst his field of black? It's the boxed edition of Mac OS X 10.3: Panther!
Didn't get any writing done last night; I was configuring my new operating system. Mac OS 10.3 is so much better than 10.2 (codenamed 'Jaguar'). The metal Finder windows look a bit ... off ... to begin with, but it's faster, and it doesn't crash. I think I had a problem with my system before, because the machine would crash every time I plugged anything into the USB ports. But now, it works like a dream. TextEdit looks naff, though. They changed from the nice square buttons in 10.2 back to the silly rounded-edged ones featuring in TextEdit from Mac OS 10.1. I think I can live with that, though.
Hehe. At this rate, Kate's going to have finished her rewrites of Revival before I even finish the first draft of Cold Witness. She's roaring ahead, but I'm sort of, well, stuck. The problem is that I never fully outlined the last two chapters, so I'm having to make them up as I go along. I know I have to tie in all the subplots and make a nice, rounded ending, but I'm having problems working out how. Well, it'll come to me in time. Let's just hope it doesn't take too much time.
Aha! What's this nice shiny package that's just come through the post? What's this brushed-metal 'X' symbol about seven inches high sitting smugly amidst his field of black? It's the boxed edition of Mac OS X 10.3: Panther!
Didn't get any writing done last night; I was configuring my new operating system. Mac OS 10.3 is so much better than 10.2 (codenamed 'Jaguar'). The metal Finder windows look a bit ... off ... to begin with, but it's faster, and it doesn't crash. I think I had a problem with my system before, because the machine would crash every time I plugged anything into the USB ports. But now, it works like a dream. TextEdit looks naff, though. They changed from the nice square buttons in 10.2 back to the silly rounded-edged ones featuring in TextEdit from Mac OS 10.1. I think I can live with that, though.
Hehe. At this rate, Kate's going to have finished her rewrites of Revival before I even finish the first draft of Cold Witness. She's roaring ahead, but I'm sort of, well, stuck. The problem is that I never fully outlined the last two chapters, so I'm having to make them up as I go along. I know I have to tie in all the subplots and make a nice, rounded ending, but I'm having problems working out how. Well, it'll come to me in time. Let's just hope it doesn't take too much time.
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