This week I upgraded to Leopard on my Macbook Pro. Spaces and the new dock are pretty sweet. Lots of little changes here and there that were definitely worth upgrading for. Everything so far seems to be running okay except for one thing: Photoshop.

It seems like text fields in the toolbar seem to jump around and not work as expected. Once you enter a value, it retains it even after trying to put in a new one. A seemingly minor problem, but really annoying. Makes cropping photos or constrained selections just about impossible. Hopefully Adobe and Apple can sort this problem out soon, as it’s stopping me from upgrading on my G5 at home that I do production work on.

In other news, I went to see Tori Amos Monday night at the Auditorium Theater with Clay and Paige. It was definitely exciting to see her live for the first time, and hopefully won’t be the last. We were kind of surprised that she didn’t sing Me and a Gun (along with a few others), but apparently she made up for that at the Vic the night after. Guns and all. Bummer we didn’t go to that show, too.

A couple of weeks ago I started using the Blueprint CSS framework to quickly roll out a mini-resume/mini-portfolio page that I can update quickly for prospective clients. Its column-based grid is easy to use and makes laying out a web page feel more like laying out an actual print piece.

The attention to detail in the framework’s default typography is incredible–type aligns to a common baseline grid and there is even support for incremental leading. It’s not even v1.0 and it is already chock full of web design wonderfulness.

Massive kudos to Olav Bjørkøy for a job really well done.