i upgraded to
panther

today and my first impressions are generally positive. wierdly the
install took a lot longer on my 700 MHz 14″ ibook, as compared to
kris’ 800 MHz 12″ ibook. obviously clock speed has something to do
with it, but i’d be surprised if it accounted for most of the 30-40
minute difference. it’s probably a coincidence, but my power cord died during the upgrade process. it’s now making a faint clicking sound and not producing any juice. kris’ power cord works fine.

expose’

looks like it has the potential to be useful, but i’m not sure how
much i’ll use it. as
noticed by others

, expose’ exposes a “hidden window in both
firebird

and

thunderbird

.

i’ll pre-emptively post some links related to perl and mysql that
look like they may save me a headache or two over the next few
days.

here

,

here

and
here

.

relatedly, after a
long blog hiatus

ken bereskin

is back in action with a
panther
blog

that does a good job of highlighting new features.