Oh Ess Ten Point One

This weekend started bright and early Saturday morning at a little before 8am. What could possibly drag ME out of bed on a Saturday morning? That's easy: a (free) major update to the best-looking, most powerful new operating system in the world. Mac OS X version 10.1 was released earlier in the week and upgrade CDs were supposed to be available at local Apple resellers. I arrived at Capitol Mac a few minutes before they opened. There were already 10 or so other people waiting by the front door. The doors opened and everyone rushed in. I got my copy and rushed back home so that we could leave for Northern VA for the weekend. So, Olivia drove..and I installed the 10.1 update..yes, in the car! It installed beautfully and, so far, is just simply awesome. It's exponentially faster than previous releases of the system and finally includes DVD video playback and data CD burning from the desktop. I can't think of any other word for it except "awesome." I'll have to continue playing with it over the next few days, but I have a strong feeling that I'll start using this as my "everyday" system starting now.

For those of you non-geeks that skipped the above paragraph because it contained high (and possibly toxic) levels of technical terms, Olivia and I went up to visit Brian in Northern VA for the weekend. Everything seemed pretty normal up there, except for the mass number of American flags and "UNited We Stand" banners hanging from every overpass in the DC-metro area. It was pretty cool to see the patriotism being shown up there. Many of the tall buildings in the Tyson's Corner area had huge American flags hanging from them, too.

Overall, it was a very relaxing weekend away from home. I didn't watch CNN or MSNBC all weekend, which was a nice change. Unfortunately, not much had changed. It looks like the Taliban is now almost taunting the US, saying in an Afghanistan public radio message that the US "doesn't have the courage" to come over there and fight them. I wonder if they'll say the same when a stealth bomber flies right up their ass. By the way, while we were in NoVA, Brian pointed me in the direction of a pretty interedting website: IHateOsama.com. Some pretty funny images and games over there. Check it out.