Apple's new operating system, Tiger (OS 10.4), comes out in ten days. It looks pretty good, but I'm still on 10.2.8 and staying with it for now. Of course, I'm the one that stayed with MacOS 8.6 for years and years--it was such a great operating system.

You'd think someone with my experience in technology would want to be on the cutting edge, but this plays precisely the other way. I've seen (and had to explain) just about everything that can go wrong. I'd never upgrade to a new operating system the day it comes out--let everyone else experience the bugs, and give me at least six months. Right now, my configuration with OS 10.2.8 isn't perfect, but is entirely manageable. There's an odd printing bug where, every so often, something won't print--easily corrected by unplugging and re-connecting my USB cable. Once in a blue moon, an envelope will print incorrectly. No problem--just delete the printer from Print Center, restart, and add it back.

New technologies bring their own new collections of quirks and bugs. If you have a situation that's manageable, you're doing just fine. In addition, I just don't have time to take a risk on unknown wrinkles and the hours spent ironing them out. Maybe if my computer were a toy this would be the case, but it's not.

Tiger looks great. A complete lack of aggravation is even better.