The Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference - and all its big announcements - makes me happy. With the addition of the amazingly powerful Mac Pro (desktop), their entire line now uses Intel processors, and the preview pretty much guarantees that OS X 10.5 Leopard, when it's released early next year, is going to be amazing, too. Among other things, there's a new feature called Time Machine that automatically backs up everything, even stuff you think you've deleted, and lets you retrieve it easily. Don't know if there will be any other surprising developments this week as the conference wears on, but my money's on the next major update to involve the new Core Duo 2 processors (Merom) showing up in lighter, longer-battery-life Macbooks and especially Macbook Pros. Possibly to be revealed at the MacWorld Expo in January, possibly to coincide with the full release of Leopard. And if and when both these things are in place, I'll be buying one.

04 days till I leave camp, $200 richer.
05 days till the Boston Light swim.
06 days till I get home to J-ville.
10 days till I move to Chapel Hill.
16 days till classes start.