Ok, where in the dickens did the Favorites functionality go?

It's not in the Go menu any more. Not in the Open/Save dialog box any more. Not in the File menu.

Curses!!! I used that functionality. The great hand of Apple giveth and taketh away. 'Cept they always seem to taketh away the most useful things.

Need to find some sort of replacement functionality. But, grr...

I'm going back through my Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1 DVDs and watching the extra content, the episodes I liked, and such. It's fun, watching the early episodes - where the vampires turn to dust a little differently than they do later (refining of technique), watching various members of the Scooby Gang dust a vampire for the first time, seeing "experiments" that the production crew never did again, not seeing or hearing dustings when they should happen, and listening to commentary.

The commentary is particularly insightful. Like characters they wanted to kill off after only a few episodes, but liked, so they kept them (examples: Darla, Spike... although Darla kinda did get killed off. Kinda.). Plus, Joss is really funny sometimes.

The commentary for Season 1 sounds like it was made around the time of Season 5. So, the commentator can refer "forward" to things that will happen in 2 or event 3 seasons.

Oh, I'm trying out the category feature of Radio too right now. I'm not sure if this will turn into a habit - just an experiment now. Maybe it'll turn into something, maybe not. Still learning.

I updated to Panther I guess Friday night. I use the Archive And Install install option for the first time ever - that worked really well. Very easy, I have a clean system, and none of that hassle I would go through if I had to reformat the drive.

I like it. The new more metallic look for the title bars of windows is nice, the sidebar of Finder windows is a good idea ('cause everybody has more space side-to-side than up-and-down), and I turned on Medium Font Smoothing - making everything seem, well, smoother. I also like the new Hide menu command in every application's dock menu. w000t.

However, installing the developer tools took a very very VERY long time. Probably a good hour and a half. On the plus side, I got an AppleScript Studio project up and running with it in no time. I even found a bug that slipped past 10.2's version of AppleScript Studio (a debugging call to set the contents of an object - except the object wasn't there anymore because I had deleted it long ago.)

A decent upgrade I think. Haven't played much with the more radical features of it (Expose, fast user switching). I suspect I won't get to play much with fast users, since I'm the only one here.

Menus (be they popup or just really long menus) that go down past the bottom of the screen, however, seem to take longer, or not redraw as fast or something. Not completely sure why.

And random unix stuff that I'm happy about: Python 2.3 being included by default (and, unlike 10.2's less than stellar default Python 2.2 install, this one Apparently Doesn't Suck.) Oh, and vim being installed instead of vi.