I am eagerly awaiting Friday’s delivery of “Leopard”, also known as Mac OS X 10.5, the latest update to the Mac operating system. This one appears o bring a lot of goods to the table including many interface tweaks, automatic integrated backup (see my previous post on Time Machine), performance improvements, and several new and updated programs.

Apple is planning one of their iPhone-like hype fests by closing down stores for a couple hours only to reopen at 6 for a big launch party. I’m not camping out for this one since there’s going to be no shortage of the software. Instead, it should be delivered right to my desk at work. I finally got to put that nice iPhone rebate to work. The early reports of this software are pretty good. We’ll see in a couple days.