Well, the March Break (Spring Break to our American cousins) is over. I managed to spend most of my time playing with the kids rather than getting much productive work done. Which I consider to be, generally, a Good Thing.

A few interesting items. Sensei George has passed on two links, one entertaining and one enlightening. The enlightening one first:

Firefox is better than Safari has made me re-examine my use of Safari on the Mac. I don't have any problems with Safari - I use it because it's conveniently located on my Dock, and I've felt no compelling reason to switch. There are, however, some compelling reasons outlined in the above article to switch to Firefox. Like saving complete web pages. More importantly though, with lots of folks on the Windows side using Firefox, lots of web sites are making sure their pages work with it. Which means that Mac users reap the benefits when they use Firefox themselves. Oh, and if you do use Firefox, try out the SessionSaver extension, which saves your complete browser state when you exit.

The entertaining one: Mac vs. PC 3 is a Photoshop contest. 'Nuff said.

Two things that I highly recommend as a result of recent personal experience:

Virtual PC 7 for Mac is so improved over VPC 6 it's absolutely worth the upgrade. Basically it's a whole lot faster, even if there's some cheating involved when you quit, where it does the session saving in the background while appearing to exit immediately. Oh well, it's all about perception and I perceive it to be faster.

If you need Mac memory, Mac Ram Direct is the place to order it. I've done it now three times with smooth inexpensive service. Bonus to Canadians, choose postal delivery and customs charges go to zero. Delivery time is about a week.

Finally, completely off topic, C.J. Cherryh's Destroyer is out in hardcover, and it's great.