In my continuing coverage of the week of the much-awaited-for Mac OS X Leopard release, which is probably a big joke considering that I’m spending half of this week completely out of town, possibly without internet access of any sort, I move on to Part 2 of my Tiger-to-Leopard series, which as far as I know is the only series on the entire Internet dedicated exclusively to looking at just how damn long it’s taken for Apple to get this latest cat out of its gigantic, iPhone-shaped bag. Today, I look at World News! In our rapidly changing, fairly turbulent world, what of national importance (and some things of unimportance) has happened in the last 2 and a half years?

I should mention, by the way, that this particular portion of my Tiger-to-Leopard series is brought to you almost in full by Wikipedia. Who would have thought that it could be such a useful resource for all kinds of wonderful information?

Shall we begin?
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Tags: history, Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger-to-Leopard, Wikipedia, world news