Installed the Lion upgrade on my iMac this morning, though not without difficulty ... the download crashed the App Store application! My initial thoughts are mixed. Safari seems much improved, and the left/right swipe action there is brilliant. I'm already used to the "reversed" scrolling, but I re-enabled the always-visible scroll bar ... it makes no sense at all to have that disappear on a desktop device. Launchpad is useless for anyone with more than a handful of apps, and since I don't use Spaces I don't really like the new look of Mission Control. Mail seems more solid, though I went back to the classic UI there. There's a lot of serious ugliness in the UI, especially for a design-conscious company like Apple. The Finder and Mail went way too far towards the monochrome look ... the font choices, spacing, and graphic layout all suck. On the other hand, Apple went too far in the other direction in the Address Book and iCal, sacrificing usability and
Where I come from looks a bit like that
ReplyDeleteThat's somewhere in the eastern Transvaal ... on a drive I took between Pretoria and Swaziland. I loved that area, and it felt very much like the American west to me.
ReplyDeleteMuch of the highveld looks like that. Much of a muchness, I suppose, but it always gives a great sense of peace.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree. It looks a little like Eastern Washington in terrain, but more tragic when you see the city areas. Keep 'em coming, Mark! ;-).
ReplyDeleteWow Mark, you got around while you were out here. Beautiful photos. I think you captured the sense of contrast that you get travelling through SA. We drove from the Wild Coast through Mthata to East London last week and it was like seeing the world in 4 hours, not only in terms of landscapes but people and their wealth. It really is a microcosm of the world with all its beauty and ugliness.
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