I’m still around, contrary to what this blog might lead you to believe. Sorry about the lack of posts but I seem to spend all my words on FriendFeed and twitter these days. I’ll try to do better but no promises. Before you continue, I request that you excuse the typos in this post. I’m working with new (cramped!) hardware that is affecting my typing but more on that later.

So!

What have I been up to of late? Let’s see, went down to Richmond, VA to visit with family and do some genealogy research. The visit was actually quite fruitful as there is stuff hidden in microfiche in the Library of Virginia that I would have never found elsewhere. <slight tangent>Why this data is locked away in microfiche format, I will never understand. Why hello 2009, you’re full of wonder and technology, surely this stuff should have been digitized by now. Alas no, and I’m fairly certain the Library of Virginia is not the only place that has treasure troves of information that can’t be found unless you visit.</slight tangent>

My trip led me to find out something I find quite important though. Up until then, I knew my grandmother died in her late 30′s but I had no idea my great grandmother also died very young. That knowledge freaked me out enough (I do have a fear of dying young you know) to finally bite the bullet and do the 23andme thing. I ordered the test last week, I should be getting the kit next week. I don’t know whether I’ll find out something reassuring or depressing but at least I’ll know. Perhaps I might hit the HIV resistant gene lottery too! Hey one can dream and if I do, I promise to share my DNA with my future kids.

Post Virginia trip, I drove up to Baltimore for the boyfriends birthday. I kind of arranged a nice get together/party thing for all his friends, with the help of his brothers and his best friends. He had a great time but people who get to bury their faces in cake-y cleavage usual have fun. I’d post the picture of him nose deep in cleavage cake but then you’d never hear from me again because I’d be dead. While I was in Baltimore, he got his condo on the market. The quicker it sells, the quicker he can move out here, finally. Then we can escape my current spider infested hellhole of an apartment and move in to someplace decent.

Post Baltimore, we flew back to the Bay area together and of course, we had the worst flight in the history of flying. I think the turbulence map that day showed nearly 60% of the contiguous 48 states covered with turbulence. I will be glad when I only have to fly once or twice a year. When we got back, his birthday present arrived; a Terps red Lenovo S10. It was so perfect and great that the next week, I blew my Amazon Associates money and got a pink one for myself. Look at the precious:

If you look closely at that picture, you’ll see my cute little S10 is running OS X. This is because I love OS X but the Macbook Air is far too expensive and doesn’t come in pink.

My eyelids force closing themselves tell me that I have stayed up later than they will allow. I’ll press post on this and come back with another post in 4-6 weeks when I have my 23andme results.

Not taking hardware into account at all, what makes you use your current OS? Do you like another OS better and are just stuck with the one you have at the moment?

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Trust me, I’ve tried the dev mode thing in my hunt for a sidebar. I don’t want the looks of a sidebar, I want the functionality. Here are my wants (from http://www.osxsidebar.com)

* Will dock to the side of my screen.
* Will allow me to add dashboard widgets to it.
* Will allow me to interact with said widgets.
* Will be resizeable.
* Will work in Tiger and Leopard

In response to a lot of people who say they don’t use the dashboard widgets, not to be condescending, but you can’t really feel the frustration if you don’t use the product. Its hard to explain if you don’t use a Mac for work.

When you need to have a to-do list, a calendar, yes the weather (seriously, when you live in NY you need to know when its going to rain), an Adium widget, a notepad (I have a ton of notes in the dashboard), and an RSS reader right there where your eyes can see it while your hands are doing something else (like typing an email), a sidebar is perfect while the dashboard is useless.

I hope that helps define my wants/needs in a sidebar. Oh and to be clear, I don’t want the dashboard to be replaced. I just want a sidebar to be an option for people like me (yes there are more out there).

So theres that. Do you think there should be a sidebar in OS X? Take the poll: [poll=2]