Mac OS X and Buffy

I sit here tonight, play­ing with my com­put­er with noth­ing much to do.
The fam­i­ly iMac is cur­rent­ly run­ning some seri­ous diag­nos­tic and repair soft­ware and its cur­rent task (a direc­to­ry rebuild) will prob­a­bly take the next hour, I need to be here when its done to be sure it worked.
Hav­ing just changed every set­ting in my Router I’m also hang­ing around to make sure it will work as expect­ed in the morn­ing when my mum gets up and wants to check her email.
I am vexed by some to the things Richard said today con­cern­ing Mac OS X and why it isn’t what the press are claim­ing it will be. Even though I agree with some of his con­clu­sions, the work­ing dif­fers too great­ly for me to actu­al­ly agree with him. And why exact­ly do his unin­formed ram­bles pro­voke me so? There was­n’t much today that were saw eye to eye on.
I also feel I’m going to have to sub­stan­ti­ate my ‘cliffhang­er’ claim about Buffy, and hav­ing watched “The Gift” again tonight I still feel there are some valid points to be made, they need to be organ­ised before they can be post­ed.
And last­ly I’m try­ing to fig­ure out why it is that I have a keen under­stand­ing of gram­mar and word mean­ings, but have large amounts of trou­ble with spelling? I could go into lengthy dis­cus­sion about an intran­si­tive verb, or why split infini­tives are not gram­mat­i­cal errors, yet I am forced to check the spelling of a word like gram­mar to be sure I’ve got­ten it right. Maybe it has some­thing to do with being taught to spell at school, but not taught gram­mar.