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Following yesterday's not-entirely-smooth upgrade process, I now have my main machine running Tiger, and, apart from a few wrinkles, it's great. (Here's a very minor wrinkle for UK users: if you install the weather widget in Dashboard, it'll cleverly select London as the location for the forecasts. Unfortunately, I think it's selecting London, Ontario, or one of the other Londons; the forecast certainly isn't right for us. Specify "London, United Kingdom" and it's fine) Two and a half years ago, after installing Jaguar, I wrote that one of the good things about Apple software updates is that they generally make your machine faster, where Microsoft ones (in my now rather distant experience) tended to do the opposite. Well, the trend continues, and though there are some things that take more time in Tiger, in general the system seems noticeably snappier.

The following is an account of my experiences upgrading my Powerbook to the new "Tiger" version of Mac OS X - a long spiel which is probably of very little interest to anybody not likely to be doing the same thing... and probably not of much interest to them!

Who Should You Vote For? is a site that I think all UK voters should at least try. It asks for your views on various key subjects and tells you how they match up with the views of the various parties. I was certainly surprised by the results it came up with for me, but I could see the logic behind them.

It has two major problems, from my point of view.

• It doesn't ask you to rate your view of the competency/reliability/desirability of the individuals involved in any given party. I think this is important.
• It should be called 'For whom should you vote?' :-)