I just read a good 17 pages article over at cio.com, where John Halamka, MD and CIO of the Harvard Medical School and CareGroup, was kind of disappointed by his XP-Laptop and decided to take a one-month-switch ot the Mac, then Linux and then a new XP machine. It's a long article with very good points and quite impartial, be sure to read it!
His conclusion is not really surprising to us long-time Mac users, it sums up what we've known for decades:
"I used to think that the Macintosh was something used by free spirits just to be different," he says. "Now I realize the Mac has such superior human factor engineering that it's used by people because they can be more productive."

It`s now a week since I have my brand new MacBook Pro, and despite the fact that I`m absolutely happy with it, I tamper it with Installations of various kinds. So, one of the things I – as a spare time webdesigner – had to try was installing the dirty old Internet Explorer 6 through wine. I first did a test install with the 60-day trial of CrossOver Mac, a commercial wine-implementation, and this went just fine. If I could do that myself using wine, I`d get the same, but for free; so read on.

While working on one of our widgets, I decided to split up the CSS code into two separate CSS Stylesheets and include both with their own <link>-tag. This is common practice on websites and shouldn`t pose any problems.
I thought so.
Then I headed on and tested the layout within Safari and – what? Everything scrambled. It turned out that the widget/"webpage" only recognized one stylesheet, whichever came first.
After very much digging and trying and uncommenting code (I did change one of the Stylesheets through JavaScript and first thought that was the cause), it finally worked: I had a title-attribute in every link-tag, and although those were different titles, it didn`t work as long as both had a title-attribute. So I removed the title-attributes and everything is fine now.
As a sidenote, even Gecko-Browsers show this behaviour. I didn`t bother testing other browsers since I`m glad I resolved this issue and can continue to work on interesting stuff. :)

3 years late, Bluewin (a Swisscom brand) today launched its digital TV service in Switzerland. For a monthly fee you can now watch TV over the telephone-cable if you use their DSL-service, too. I won`t go into details here since the offer is all but new to the (swiss) market (Cablecom has a similiar offer), but I thought something was worth to mention: Bluewin tells us that there were software-problems which caused the 3 year delay. Now you wonder why the hell they need 3 years to fix software problems for a service of that importance, and yes, believe it; they partnered with Microsoft.