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Leopard's new Spaces does wonders for my work - allowing me to have less clutter in the background as I multi-task through my day.

It's really nice but it breaks. There are a number of bugs and the one I'm going to suggest fixes for is when Spaces seems to stop responding to attempts to switch spaces using the Dock.

Apple's latest operating system, OS X 10.5 Leopard brings some pretty nice cutting edge technologies to the Mac. There are just a few, ah, Bleeding Edge, items on this yet to be fully polished software. I'm going to offer up a solution on what I did to correct and polish one of these rough edges.

Bug Fix#1: FileVault Breaks Spotlight

Not exactly been a prolific writer lately have I? Busy, dizzy, busy, and dizzy. Had an attack of vertigo on August 5th and the rocking sensation has not left me since. Eight doctors, three MRIs, two CT scans, cold water in the ear and, almost four months later I still have no diagnosis. I read somewhere that diagnosing vertigo is more of an art than a science. Most doctors are clearly scientists... At least we know I have a brain and there is no cancer in it.

Funny how I used to make such a fuss over the fact that Japanese students clean their own schools.

Then I moved to Japan and started teaching and cleaning with them. I was first shocked to find out they are only given about 10-15 minutes to clean, then I found out, which should have been obvious from the hallways, they don't usually clean.

Not earth shattering, not moving, just a bit geeky. This my first weblog and I'm feeling a bit self conscious.

I'm in the midst of programming and configuring this new Drupal web site. I've tinkered with various CMS systems so far and I'm impressed with this one. Notably most of the modules seem to 'work'. I'll find out more about the inevitable handicaps built in later.

Almost time to go off to teach a little Engrish...