Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Today I took the day to attend Macworld. Apple released a bunch of new products, and the homepage lead new product announcement was the Macbook Air, which looks like it will be a hit to me. Met psychobauble and Marta at W Hotel for second breakfast. We had difficulty registering because of poor instructions on my pre-badgeholder badgeholder and poor signage which didn't make any sense, but eventually we figured it all out. The Macworld people did some things really well (self-sign-in registration) and some things really poorly (credit card swiper was present but did not work like we thought it should, only 1 line to pick up printed badges but several badge distribution points based on last name). The show floor was crowded, but mostly relaxed. The most unusual thing I saw was an NEC widescreen monitor which looked like it was the width of 3 or 4 normal widescreen monitors, and it was joined together essentially seamlessly in a smooth curve. Lunch with psychobauble and Marta at Thirsty Bear Brewery. I didn't buy anything at the show, but after the show I went to Central Computer and bought 2 surge protectors and a Firewire cable. Stopped in at H and M mens but didn't buy anything. This H and M store is always playing really great music. Watched Simpsons and ate dinner at PDD's with Phil, Danny, Drew, Patrick, Mom Ryan, and Paul. I also showed them the instant play feature on Netflix.