› WHAT A SAD DAY IT IS...
It's official. Macromedia is now gone, swallowed into the "Walmart of software companies": Adobe. Upon visiting Macromedia.com, I was welcomed with a new, albeit ugly new site design full of whites and grays. The layout is generally the same, but the colors, backgrounds and everything else have been stripped of all sexiness.

 
› NEW MEMBER TO THE FAMILY
I just picked up a new Dell Dimension 4700 with 17 inch LCD. It's stark black and sitting right next to my white G4 PowerMac... Ying and Yang. It's a P4 2.8ghz with Hyper Threading. I don't want to mention the ram or video ram as I'll be upgrading those as soon as possible, although for what I'm using it for so far, it purrs along just fine.

 
› DASHBOARD... NO LONGER EXCITING
I guess it was bound to happen, mainly because the coolness of this feature was entirely dependent on what the Mac community was going to do with the technology. I'm just not excited anymore about Dashboard Widgets.

 
› COMMENTS NOW SUPPORT GRAVATARS
Globally Recognized Avatar (gravatar.com) now supported in all comments fields on jasonkenison.com. This means, if you have one and provide your email address, your gravatar will show up in my comments fields. It was easy and quick to set one up and I can now see my gravatar all over the web in other supported forums and blogs.

 
› NEW, FREE AOL BROWSER
AOL just came out with a new version that *gasp* doesn't require their whole ISP package. Is it any better than everything else out there? No, not really. But it isn't nearly as bad as the train wreck of a browser AOL has provided it's customers in the past.

 
› NEW: RSS FEED
Since Safari 2.0 has got such a slick RSS reader built into the browser, I thought I'd set one up. It was really simple. I did notice, however, that Safari was way more forgiving of XML's character and tag rigidness.

 
› SAFARI 2.0
I have, albeit reluctantly, changed my default browser from Firefox 1.0.4 to Safari 2.0. Tiger seemed to slow Firefox down to a crawl, which really slows down my web development work. I have to hand it to Apple, though, the New Safari really flies. I want to be a Firefox kind of guy... but Safari is just too damn fast to not use.

 
› UPGRADED TO OS 10.4 "TIGER"
Been waiting for this since I first heard about it. I made the upgrade, things went smoothly and I'm pleased with the results.