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Sniff. Sniff.
0The cold is getting a little better. Actually, I guess it depends on your definition of “better.” If by “better,” you mean “I’m feeling well, thank you. The sun is shining and the birds are chirping, and I have my whole life ahead of me!” then NO I’M NOT BETTER.
But if by “better,” you mean “well, at least the snot is running out of my nose now instead of sitting stagnant in my sinuses, and also slowly dripping into the back of my throat and into my lungs, causing an unpleasant hacking cough,” then by THAT definition I’m feeling better.
“Better” has now lost all meaning, in that way that only words you’re typed out, too much in a row, can.
I tried to make tea, but the only way I have to heat water is with the coffee maker. You guessed it! Coffee flavored tea.
The grapes I’m eating are from the organic store across the street, and they taste like dirt. And yes, I washed them.
I’m gonna go drink some Nyquil and sit on the couch. I actually had a lot of gadget news, but now I don’t feel like writing it. Except to say this: I want a quad-core PowerMac G5.
OH! Another new iPod….
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This is one that I may actually buy, too… VIDEO! w00t!
I was at the San Jose theatre were MadDog Steve Jobs showed off the new iMac (pretty sweet) the new video iPod (just called “iPod… how minimalist of them) and a new iTunes 6 where you can buy TV shows for $1.99 (I already bought the pilot of Lost). Overall, I’m much more impressed than the last time around.
The only bad part of the day was that he continued to demo the video iPod with some U2 song. I hate U2. Except “Mysterious Ways,” which has a pretty slammin’ video.
Well, the footage we took from the announcement is here, and here. Check it out.
One thing I was actually bummed out about is some of the new software for the iMac is not available to us non-iMac G5 owners, like Photobooth (which seems a little silly, but I don’t like it when people tell me I can’t have things.)
Off to work, more later.
Goodbye, MacWorld Boston.
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Well, they finally decided to pull MacWorld out of Boston. I suppose it makes sense, considering the show couldn’t even get Apple to come. I’ve been to two shows in Boston (one at the South Boston Cenvention Center, and the other most recently at the Hynes Convention Center), and also one here in San Francisco. It’s easy to say that the SF show blew the Boston ones out of the water. While I never had the chance to go to one of the MacWorlds when they were in New York, from what I’ve heard it was much more exciting (to nerds like me) than the later shows.
While this makes me a little sad (now I don’t have an excuse for anymore improptu visits to Boston) I can see where they’re coming from. The Boston shows, especially at South Boston, was pathetic at best. The area that MacWorld took up was a paltry 1/4th of the room they were in. It looked… sad. Hynes was laid out a little better, but the gap left by vendors such as Apple, Macromedia, Adobe, etc was very noticable. I couldn’t tell from the article whether or not they’re planning on moving the show back to NYC, or if they’re just going to have the one show in SF. Maybe… two shows in SF? That’d be super.
When Brushed Metal goes bad.
1John Gruber at Daring Fireball has a hilarious post about iTunes 5 and the loss of brushed metal. Special guest star: Aqua interface!
You will be missed, B.M.