Last night I attended the MacBU WWDC 2007 reception. It was quite the party. I met the new GM of MacBU, Craig Eisler. He’s a very energetic fellow. One fo the MacBU devs described him as “kinetic.” That’s probably accurate.
We spoke a little bit about issues with Entourage that plague our mail system, but I turned the conversation to something a little more positive. He was one of the first DirectX developers back in the Windows 95 days. That made him a hero for me. It was great to meet him.
Iran moves to execute porn stars – CNN.com
Let me be the first to encourage adult film producers/directors/actresses to defect elsewhere ASAP.
I’ve heard/read many people project the death of the Mac Mini.
After spending half a week here at WWDC, I’d like to inform you that I don’t believe this to be the case.
Mac Minis have proven to be quite the useful little box here at WWDC. They are set up as cheapo terminals for users, practice stations, whatever you can think of. However, the most prominent use of them (and one that will definitely keep them alive) is using them with Leopard and Podcast Producer.
I am in the process of adding a few more photos of WWDC 2007. In particular, these pictures are of waiting in line for the keynote. I have videos of that too… but… gee, who wants to see a bunch of geeks waiting in line?
I also have video of portions of the keynote (like the John Carmack portion), but I’m not bothering to post it since a good slice of the keynote has been posted and does it much more justice than what I can offer.
So today was the keynote and I have to admit – it was a little underwhelming.
Most of the chatter I heard around the show today seemed to share that sentiment. The excitement was pretty good surrounding the newer features – specifically the new Finder, Cover Flow integration, Time Machine and Core Animation. It’s cool stuff. I personally never found the Finder offending enough to need replacing.
The keynote was definitely entertaining – which is good since I waited three hours for a chance to see Steve Jobs in the flesh. Since this is my first real Apple event, I got a true taste of what these things are like starting around 7am. The line stretched around Moscone Center West quite early. We were corralled into the center little by little as a teasing mechanism. As time went on, we found ourselves wound up on the 2nd floor and spiraling throughout the entire complex. Finally, when the doors were opened to the Presidio, where the keynote was to be delivered, the flock began moving. One of the escalators stopped working on one side of the lines. One guy had the bright idea that he was going to jump lines. He did so and what resulted was a crowd following suit until the security folks halted the movement. At least one person quite loudly declared, “This is bullshit man! Our escalator stopped working and we can’t get upstairs!” He was quite upset.
So we journeyed down the hill from our hotel to Moscone Center West to get a gander of WWDC 2007 and register for the show. Many folks had the same idea – they were streaming in from everywhere with excited looks on their faces. Many of them registered and immediately unpacked their laptops – perhaps to blog about the experience.
The show’s swag featured a fairly elegant WWDC ’07 laptop bag and t-shirt. The laptop bag posed a bit of a problem for us since we had a toddler and stroller with us, but the wife managed to find a way to get it attached to the stroller to make it easier to carry.
Greetings from San Francisco. It’s been a long trip, but we finally made it in to the hotel. We’re in downtown San Francisco – in the Westin St. Francis across from Union Square. This is a nice, nice hotel… and downtown SFO is quite lively, but there’s also plenty of homeless folks here begging on the streets…
Despite a cancelled flight, we’re heading out this morning to San Francisco. The new flight itinerary sucks terribly, but what can you do? The other choices just weren’t very good at all and cancelling means giving up a lot of dough. At the mercy of the airlines again.
We’ll be landing in SFO at around 5:39pm today Pacific… then tomorrow will be a day of play and WWDC registration… then Monday… WWDC! I can hardly wait.
Sun’s CEO said that Mac OS X will be getting the open-source high-performance ZFS filesystem. Exciting!
Paul Thurrott has said numerous times in his blog and on the Windows Weekly podcast that he feels that Linux does not innovate.
This is a pretty broad statement and I find myself in violent disagreement.
Whenever I install a Linux distribution to play with… which is usually how it always ends up, since I run into issues… I find myself installing and using software that I wish would be running on Windows or the Mac. I often find myself saying… “Self… why doesn’t the (such and such) platform have an app like this?”
