Ramblings of a Programmer

God took one of his children home tonight. My father’s sister, Lillian Parker, was taken to be with God tonight. She had a really bad heart attack Saturday and was put in the hospital.

My parents went to see her earlier today. My mother said that she looked quite bad with only about 20% functionality in her heart. My father called just a little while ago to give me the news and said that he knew it was just a matter of time earlier today, because she seemed to be just holding on… just like her mother did so many years ago when I was young.

My aunt was a life long member of Harmony Baptist Church in a small, unincorporated area of Blount county in Alabama. She always laughed and smiled when I saw her. Her laugh was always infectious. She was definitely a special lady.

Please pray for my family in this time of mourning, but please do not shed a tear, for she is in no longer suffering and she is much happier than we could ever be, because she is laughing and singing with her mother, Jesus, and having a wonderful fellowship with God, The Father!

I found a neat little trick by accident tonight when I was looking for new desktop pictures. I was going after Ctrl-Option-D to pop up the context menu with the optional Save As… available for an image. I hit Option-Cmd-D by mistake and found that this key combination hides the Dock. This was a new one on me!

I am looking forward to the update for iTunes which will include support for podcast downloads. This should be very interesting, because it will bring podcasting to a wider audience, in my opinion. If Apple has a pretty good podcast directory, this could be a very good thing. Currently, reports are that it is several weeks ahead of schedule and may be released as early as the end of June or the first week of July.

As for OS X 10.4.2, apparently, the last build was seeded a few days ago. Rumors were that it might be released yesterday, but it still has not been seen. Hopefully it will be out this weekend.