My friend, Prasanna brought this gift from India for me. It's a wooden replica of one of the Lion Pillars of Ashoka. The first fact that surprised and delighted me is that there are Lions in India. I had always assumed that Lions were unique to Africa1 and that Asia was the domain of the…
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How well did my OS X 10.8 install go? Well ...
So ... I completed two installs of OS X 10.8 yesterday. One on my wife's 2009 MacBook and the other on my 2009 iMac. Both went well. The MacBook was done first starting at around 8:15 AM. The servers were slammed so it took a while for things to get started. I had a few…
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Mac OS X — sorry, OS X — is going on an iOS-esque one-major-update-per-year development schedule. This year’s update is scheduled for release in the summer, and is ready now for a developer preview release. Its name is Mountain Lion.Exciting times. Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion
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