The Macs are now three:

• The original iBook, which has now had an AirPort card and its memory maxed out
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• The G4 466MHz (upgraded with a PowerLogix 1GHz G4) "Digital Audio" (currently semi-retired pending complete OS reinstallation to see if the sporadic hard lockups go away)
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• The 1.42GHz Mini (with builtin BlueTooth & Airport options), which is my daily driver, as it were

• [link|http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelmac/main.html|Photoshop Elements 3] - You get a lot of fun for your fifty smackers. Birthday pressie, used every time I take pictures
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• [link|http://www.apple.com/iwork/|iWork] - I do most of my day-to-day textual work (that's not just plain text) in Pages. Don't have much use for Keynote, although I intend to explore the "Make a Quicktime Slideshow out Of Your Photos" functionality. Again, astounding value for forty sheets.
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• <boo, hiss>[link|http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/office2004.aspx?pid=office2004|Microsoft] Office 2004</boo, hiss>. Windows people, you're being denied. This is what the Office folk really intended to turn out.
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• [link|http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/|Omnigraffle] - Like Visio, but not desk-bitingly frustrating to use. It speaks Visio XML format, too.
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• [link|http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php|iDefrag] - It defrags your disk, with spangly graphics. Licencing is sane (buy for desktop, can install on one or two laptops)
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• [link|http://colloquy.info/|Colloquy] - IRC client powered by the irssi codebase. Like X-Chat Aqua, but nicer.
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• [link|http://www.adiumx.com/|AdiumX] - Like GAIM (and is powered by libGAIM), but with a GUI that wasn't half-inched from AIM
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• [link|http://www.bitsonwheels.com/|Bits On Wheels] - A nice BitTorrent client, that's not written in Java.
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• [link|http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/|Fugu] - A top-drawer SCP/SFTP client
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• [link|http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/|SubEthaEdit] - A rather pleasant text editor

All three boxes are running OS X 10.4.2. I'm all over Spotlight, and I'm finding that although I don't think about Dashboard very much, I really do miss it when it's not there (i.e. when I'm on the Wretched Windows PC at work). I use the dictionary and UK yellow pages widgets a lot.

When the home PC is finally paid for (it's on a byzantine HP scheme through work), it's history.

Sayonara, Bill!

TTFN, Linus! (Well, not really. I have a Linux server that's not going anywhere; I don't really fancy transplanting the mail infrastructure to an OS X box just yet. May happen one day, though...)