Stray Dog Strut

I mentioned in the last post that my Mac died on me. Well it was a slow and painful death. Oh how I wept!

Okay, it didn’t actually get to the ‘dead’ stage before I sent it off for reincarnation. Suffice to say I discovered my hard drive was on its way out when my latest backup failed due to an ‘invalid root node’ error. Cue much cursing and biting of nails as I tried in vain to fix it before discovering it was a hardware problem after all.

Luckily my cover doesn’t run out until next month, so I sent the Mac off for repair. That was over three weeks ago and I got my Mac back yesterday afternoon. Now fitted out with a brand new hard drive and the shiny new coat of a “Snow Leopard” (Mac OS X 10.6), everything’s the way it should be.

Well, almost. Since all my files are still on a bootable external hard drive running Mac OS 10.4 “Tiger”, it’s moving day all over again. But it’s always nice to have a clean slate. Plus, i’m now in my element messing around with all the ‘new’ changes in Snow Leopard. I like Snow Leopard overall, though i’m not convinced by the new 3D dock. I’ve also had some teething problems with iTunes that i’ll mention in a follow up post.

I’ll do a proper review of Snow Leopard in the next few days, as well as covering some of the other changes i’ve been making.

I’ll review the new features in more detail soon, but it’s looking very nice indeed. I particularly like the new child themes method for creating themes (you can base themes on parent themes, only changing what’s needed), the custom menus, and the custom post types (really custom ‘content’ - see here for good examples). You can read all about the new changes on the WordPress blog.

This is just the jolt I need to finish my own cutom theme (i’m SO sick of the green now). It has actually been 95% done for ages now, but my final year at Uni has really taken precedence over my ‘projects.’ I recently started working on it again, but a recent hard-drive failure has meant i’ve had to put it on hold=( With the arrival of WP 3.0 though, I think i’ll start from scratch as soon as i’m able. I should be able to get something up soon.

Sorry, just a quick post today, but i’ll post again soon with what i’ve been up to.

Later.