Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:

The rumor sites say that Panther is heading for release before the end of the month, that the Golden Master release is already being duplicated, and even that work has already begun on 10.3.1

Apple just posted the news on their main page, October 24th is the official release day. There’s a neat counter showing how many days, hours, minutes and seconds are left; it imitates one of those mechanical clocks. Interesting how people feel this compulsion to imitate mechanical gadgets electronically…

Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:

It seems that I finally have achieved some sort of critical mass or energy to start working again on my software on a regular basis…

I noticed that this morning I was done with my news/RSS feed reading in less than an hour, and that I followed up much less links than usual. Apparently my usual news sites and weblogs are concentrating on stuff like California elections, Washington shenanigans, the baseball season and other regional/ethnic issues – it’s all even more opaque than usual. So… do I suddenly live in uninteresting times?