Wednesday night was long and late, but very much worth it: I trekked down to the Clarendon Apple Store, where the Genius Bar looked over my iBook and replaced my battery — for free on warranty! It is really good to have a charge lifespan of four hours again, rather than ten minutes.

Two potentially useful OS X freeware apps: LiFTP, simple freeware FTP client; and ThumbsUp, quick and easy drag-and-drop image thumbnail generator.