More on OS X for Intel
Well, John Dvorak waded in on this question and in his usual inimitable fashion he wrote a column entitled "How the MacIntel Will Change the Market". John Gruber, blogging at http://daringfireball.net/2003/04/qwerty.html contends that Dvorak is "just a pundit" who want to stir things up and does not have an adequate grasp of the marketplace and Apple's strategy. Personally I think that John Dvorak makes some very good points and that John Gruber pretty much fails to understand the market for OS X on standard Intel PC architecture. The market is NOT existing MAC users, so the "backwards compatibility" issues he raises are just not relevant; the market is PC buyers who, given a choice of operating systems, might elect to go with OS X over Windows. Assuming some smart marketing strategies and pre-bundled applications such as OpenOffice.org, I firmly believe that OS X could grab a large part of the market share for new PC operating systems. X11 for OS X offers such a huge opportunity to open-source developers to further build market share that I am certain that pre-compiled binaries of xwindows applications for OS X will become commonplace, and the release of OS X for Intel would make them ubiquitous. Now what should happen and what will happen may be very different things, and only time will tell, but I'd have to go with John Dvorak on this one.

Hmmm... Taxes.
Well. they didn't prove to be anywhere near as bad as I thought. Popped in Tax Cut Platinum, sat down with all the papers assembled by my other half, and actually did it all in about 3 hours--done, e-filed, finito. Isn't technology wonderful?