Hello all,

More perfect weather this week, just in time to rescue my wife’s tomatoes from me and my family. Between sweltering heat and crushing downpours, her tomatoes-in-a-bucket have just had a rough summer. I may not have drilled adequate drain holes in said buckets, but I’m going to blame Mother Nature and my busy life instead. That being said we now have a ton of green tomatoes hanging in the sun finally happy and healthy and on the way to being ripe. While our gardening effort wasn’t all I imagined it would be back in March, it certainly hasn’t been a total write-off, and of course it fascinates the kids which is half the reason I do it in the first place.

Jon has a great article this week about some ways to deal with what I still find to be a questionable decision by Apple to make its newest OS versions essentially only available as downloads. The newest upward trend on our support line (behind the perennial winner “I can’t connect to my wireless network”) has been the call that starts: “So I was downloading Lion and….”. It is inconvenient, awkward, and I feel unfairly creates a dependence on high-speed internet to perform a basic and vital service on computers. I like analogies, and when I heard Mountain Lion was download-only I thought “That is like selling a car with no spare tire.” Unfortunately I have learned they now do that as well. So it goes, I guess. The way of the road, as my buddy Ray would say, it’s the way of the road.

Thanks for reading,

Liam
liam@smalldog.com