Flashes of Panic

One of my favorite things about Mac OS X is that if one app is hung up working on something, you can flick to another and move on there. So, for instance, if you’re waiting for a very long email to load (say, the comprehensive report on idiots attempting to abuse our e-mail ten or twenty thousand times in the past twenty-four hours) you can write a weblog post.

The really cool thing, though, is that if the mail window is still visible in the background, and you move the mouse over where it is, it changes from the arrow (“click, I’ll do something”) into the spinning beach ball (“hang on, I’m working on it”) to let you know not to bother looking in on Mail yet—it’s still not done. Sweet.

Now playing: Are You Out There from End Of The Summer by Dar Williams

(A song, by the way, about WRSI.)