Nostalgia, sort of

So, I'm back on Mac OS X. Here's why.

The GPU on Sherka, my primary workstation, finally died. It did so about thirty seconds after I had completed a full backup of my entire home directory to an external drive. So I switch back to Sharon, my iBook, only to find that I've messed up both my Linux kernels' yaboot configs and the combo drive has died so I can't make a live CD. I'd be surprised, except that cluster coincidences like this one are far too common when you're an elmindreda.

So I'm stuck in Mac OS X Tiger on a five year old iBook.

However, I'm finding that it's not a bad place to be. A few apps later and it's a fully usable desktop. It feels almost like home. It now seems even more likely that the next laptop will be a MacBook Pro.