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Thursday, January 9, 2003 |
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Lines that Rock. "There should be a button on my desk that I push and 49 people pray for me" -- President Bartlett. HAH!
I want that button. |
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New Blog at Right. Oh, one last thing. Added the guy who's keeping a blog on Safari to the right navigation bar. David Hyatt wrote the browser, actually. So his blog "Surfin' Safari" is now featured at right. Hooray for developers at Apple reaching out to the community and getting responses. Of course, that could be because the browser's pretty damn near open source. 10:34:20 PM comment [] 
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Back From Expo Well, I survived back to Davis this evening, despite the deep rains and the fog, not even to mention the traffic. Okay, DC's got nothing on San Francisco when it comes to traffic. We sat in downtown street traffic for what felt like an eternity, making out way of the rain, through muni buses that lost their electricity, through intersections that were clogged by cars and pedestrians alike in that daily jumble that is rush hour.
I've got some interesting thoughts on this is the near future. I can't focus right now. |
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Gah. Crappy Session Sessions that Suck. I just got out of Disaster Relief. You'd think they'd have prepared us for actual disasters...
No such luck. Disillusioned. In search of shiny crap on Expo Floor until 4:30 for Rendezvous Session. |
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Pictures! Pictures from the party last night. 12:05:11 PM comment []
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Expo redux Been a good morning here. We said goodbye to Neil about 9:30 this morning, he headed off to the airport to try to catch an earlier flight back to Chicago. Got ourselves checked out of the Villa Florence, which overall was nice, if very very cramped. The room was pretty but there was maybe 10 sqft of real floor space beyond the beds, and yes that may include the closet. Worth it at $70/night on Priceline though, although I heard that several people got into the Marriott at that price, so I suppose we didn't get the Killer Diller deal. This afternoon I've got three more sessions and then we'll pack up and head back for Davis at 6pm this evening to arrive just before 9pm, having combined a bus trip to Emeryville and a train ride back to Davis from there. It's been a good Macworld. The keynote was incredible and the new iLife suite promises to do for creative integration what Office did for productivity. Apple's aligned themselves perpendicular to Microsoft at the moment, with some obvious overlay with Keynote. Microsoft obviously doesn't understand creativity, while Apple does. Apple doesn't have a huge grasp on office productivity, and while I won't say that they "understand" it, I will say that they are doing a better job. However, Apple understands the market better than their 5% market share suggests. I think this is where we see Apple succeed. Want to do stuff with those photos, those home movies, those goodies that are coming along with being a person with a camera and an opinion? Great. iLife says "You Can Do This!"
*sigh* I think Steve's Distortion Field is still in play. Oh well. I can live that way. |
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Some Parties Are Just Good Fun! What a night. Thanks so much to David Lawrence and his lovely producer Lily for the awesome party they threw tonight. We met over at Gordon Biersch on Harrison tonight over at the Embarcadero. They had waiting for us some serious appetizers and a great big surprise: Our Own Trolley. We got on the trolley, having met the guys from LockerGnome (Chris and Lori and Gretchen and Jake, as well as their friends Courtney and Mike) as well as a bunch of other people who were there, having heard about the party from the expo floor or from the website. We wandered about the city, getting free Gordon Biersch beer on the trolley (their Märzen is really high quality) and shooting a potato gun and heh, even mooning random strangers and getting boxer shorts for it. Look for my pictures to come tomorrow at some point. We're all exhausted, but we had great pizza on Union Square and wandered around in the gorgeous city that is San Francisco. What a wonderful place this is. What a great party that was, and I think I may come out of it with some great contacts (like the folks at Lockergnome) and some good friends.
Thanks a lot everyone!! |
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