El Tigre esta en la casa...

I tried to think of a cooler post title like "Running with the Tiger", or "Walking with a Tiger" (hoping that someone would catch the limp tie-in with LL Cool J's seminal album "Walking with a Panther"), but I switched over to Spanish. As I was typing that title just now, it reminded me of my ignorance with an Apple keyboard. The alt+160s no longer bring up accented letters and whatnot. So yes, I realize that there should be an accent above the 'a' in "esta", but I can't figure out how to get it there. I'm also lost without Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+X, and especially Ctrl+Z. I'm sure I can program my Apple keyboard to do it too.

OS X (Tiger) is an amazing operating system. I think I'm ready to say that it feels better than Windows XP (which I never liked), and it might even trump my old favorite Windows 2000 as best OS to interact with. I've said it in earlier posts; Apple rules design. I don't know if it's the pot, acid, or hallucinogenic mushrooms that their legendary design teams are all tripping on right now, but man... it's just a beautiful system. It just feels like you are paying for a superior product. Or at least a different product. And it is tough to differentiate between the cool, counter-cultural feeling of not using Windows versus actually appreciating it as a system. As we talked about at work today, it's nice to not have a machine geeking out about trojan horses, viruses, attempted hacking attempts, etc. But it's early to claim victory over malware.

Clearly a lot of time and money went into the user interface. I'm reminded of the iPod click wheel experience as I drag my mouse pointer over the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It's actually fun to do.