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Lifecycle of the North American Jaguar. Some tidbits I’ve
discovered already:

• The vim 6.0 executables I had didn’t work. Get vim 6.1 binaries for OSX,
  including gvim support. (Go ahead and ln -s
  /Applications/vim/Vim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim
  /usr/local/bin/vim for
  shell usage, too.)

• My Terminal seems to be really confused about multibyte fonts.
  Using my preferred setup (ProFont, 9pt.) any instance of l/
  (that’s ‘ell’, ‘slash’) will turn into a blank (or a doubly-wide blank
  if you have your settings slightly different). There’s also Monaco (did
  anyone else notice the “Monaco CY” font, which seems to be a “Monaco
  circa 1984”?) but it’s got weird spacing issues (and sometimes has
  problems with imagined multibyte situations as well). Lots of
  tweaking to find a font that will work.

Of course, the visual style has REALLY been cleaned up. The old style, which
was indeed extremely lickable, has metamorphosed into a cleaner,
crisper style that’s eminently more clickable. Let’s take a
look, shall we?

MacOS X 10.0-10.1	MacOS X 10.2 “Jaguar”

“Hey! Graffiti! Hey! MONKEY!”

Woo, entry 1000 came and went without a
hitch. However, entry 1001 failed silently. (Got it on one bounce.)
Also, my picture-viewer has been broken for weeks,
and nobody told me.

While eating my sandwich, a little bit of turkey slipped out and fell to
the ground, and I thought to myself, “Where’s Armand
when you need him?”

Today, US radio stations were given the OK to start playing U2‘s new single, “Electrical Storm”. The
track (to be released as a single in October) will accompany the
forthcoming Best of 1990-2000 2-disc set from the band (expected in
Nov.)

BBC1 played the track a few days ago, and it was faithfully captured
to RealAudio
format. However, Universal Records is reported to have
stated that this track is a “demo only”, implying that the real
single differs in some way.