passed!. Just got back from the test center. I passed my written exam for my helicopter pilot's license! Now for the 'check ride' in about 2 weeks time and then it's official: Captain Curry. Just wait 'till I hover over your hotspot 🙂 [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Sean, I know what you mean. iTunes has been great; I'm buying more music than ever before. I listened to the clips for that band and I think I'm going to buy the album.

iTunes iSerendipity. I found this band, the Weakerthans, on iTunes, and fell in love on the first clip play…
[Sean Gallagher: the dot.communist]

I've spent some time today installing MacOS 10.3 Panther. Thanks
to Apple's kind UpToDate program, I received my disks in the mail today
(late, my fault). Bad news–they are upgrade CDs, which means
that you *have* to have a previous version of…

oops. Kernel panic during install…

Holding down power button didn't do it. Three finger Mac salute did. Here's the setup on my test Mac:

PowerBook G3 (Bronze Keyboard)
G3/400, 512MB RAM, 12GB Hitachi HD
Processor card rev allows larger RAM and correctly uses L2 cache on board.

Installed MacOS 9, then a *very basic* 10.2, then started the Panther
install. Yuk. Tried this four times, no dice. I'm
going to pull the RAM tomorrow and see what happens. As for
tonight, I'm backing up my primary Mac, a brand new eMac with
SuperDrive, and doing an install from scratch. I'll break out the
restore disks, restore the 10.2.6 that it shipped with, then do the
upgrade from there.

What about the home server?
Well, it's running Jaguar server right now, so I'm not inclined to
change it. Wait, why not? Radio's backed up anyway and I
want to use it for XCode stuff.

RAM out of Lombard. Attempting reinstall.

:  Removed 256MB chip on top.  Had a similar
problem before the processor rev was installed.  RAM probably
isn't up to Panther standards. No prob, just a test machine.

Halley Suitt narrates a user's experience with a new piece of software. [Scripting News]

From Bryan Bell referencing this post by Marc Canter.

The Third option is Mac OS X. I just finished installing 10.3 and I might have found Nirvana! Everything is fast, and easy to use. Expose has already changed my life for the better.

DiveintoOSX.org has a great blow by blow article on 10.3. It chronicles a lot of the 150 changes in this latest version.

Joshua Marshall of Talking Points Memo fame is rustling up some cash for a trip to New Hampshire to cover the primaries. I sent him $10, especially since so many of you did the same for me to send me to BloggerCon.

Here's a link to his post describing the details. There's a PayPal link in his article to send cash. Do it and support non-traditional journalism.

Good luck with everything, Dann! I'll be looking for photos in a couple of days…

I will be dropping off the air for a few days on this site as my wife and I welcome into the world our first child, Molly Janett Sheridan. We are heading into the hospital this evening to begin inducing my wife and coaxing Molly out of the womb. She seems to like it in there. I am sure I will be posting many times on the baby site this weekend. Stay tuned! [Dann Sheridan's Weblog]

Bryan, I got this from you, but I read the zeldman feed too. I read the article yesterday, but some of it was out of my depth. CSS and XHTML are gettting closer and closer to a page description language like PCL or PostScript.

Sliding Doors of CSS. This is one of the hardest thing I have tried to teach my friends, and now I don't have to cause Douglas Bowman did a great tutorial on ALA:

“Image-driven, visually compelling user interfaces. Text-based, semantic markup. Now you can have both! Douglas Bowman’s sliding doors method of CSS design offers sophisticated graphics that squash and stretch while delivering meaningful XHTML text. Have your cake and eat it, too!” [A List Apart: for people who make websites]

[BryanBell.com]

Dave Winer at BloggerCon. Test of the the addition of pictures to my
Radio weblog.

iTunes for Windows is out. Ya-hou! Browser code added to template to handle iTunes links and “Get iTunes” button added from this page.