The Newton Team Way Back When, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.
Man.. this brings back a flood of really good memories of my time at Apple, and all the friends I still have from way back when. Click through to see a few notes.
A quick post to say a hearty thank you to John Labovitz for his great presentation and demo of the Nu language. It was really interesting, and has made great strides since I first learned about it at C4[1].
John sent me his presentation, feel free to download it and play with his examples.
Next month I’ll be doing a talk on NSOperation and NSOperationQueue, as it’s something I need to learn about for my personal programming project I’m currently working on. March 12 at 6pm, mark your calendars.
(Via Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog.)
Some great advice from Dan Wood on what he would change if he went back in time to when he started his mac indie company.
Tomorrow night is CocoaHeads CocoaHeads Portland – John Labovitz is going to give us a hands on introduction to the Nu program language, and how one can use Cocoa in Nu.
Feel free to arrive anytime after 5:30pm, the downstairs doors tend to get locked at 6pm. We’ll start off at 6pm with a round of Q&A, as that worked really well last time, and start the hands on talk at around 6:30pm. Food will be provided.
Location details:
Extensis Portland – 1800 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR – Suite 500
(Via Shirt Pocket Watch.)
It’s been a long time coming, but I’d rather have it work 100% than released 3 months ago. 
Update: It shipped, and it works great.
I think my favourite CARS moments are the Friday Feature: Crazy Apple Help Desk posts – last Friday’s as an example – I just find super funny.. and probably too close to reality for help desk support people.
(Of which a friend is one).
Well done John Moltz. I’ll miss your humor and wit.
More favorite moments at Brent Simmons weblog.
The keynote has come and gone, and really for me, the best thing announced was the new iPhone features.
I’m most impressed with the location feature in Maps. We live out on the edge of Beaverton at the urban growth boundary, so my AT&T coverage here is, well, spotty at best.
When I have WiFi turned off, here’s what I see:
When I turn on WiFi, you’ll see that my location gets dramatically more defined. Which means that the WiFi mapping that is being used is really accurate:
Yes, my home is right in the center of that circle. I’m hoping tomorrow when I suck it up and go to work that it will be as accurate as it is at home.
The other announcements didn’t particularly interest me enough to pull out a credit card to pre order anything. The MacBook Air looks cool, I look forward to checking it out at the local Apple store.
I still don’t get the Apple TV. Someone please explain to me what I’m missing? Is it because I have a TiVo Series 3?
Time Capsule has the most potential “buy now” for me. I have a backup hard drive that I use with SuperDuper! and it would be nice to have a Time Machine backup as well. I am going to wait to read some reviews though, as I’m worried about the speed of the hard drive over the network. I have an Airport Extreme base station and performance was very poor for heavy disk use. Hopefully someone at Macworld will figure out how the internal ‘server grade’ hard drive is connected.
That’s my guess.. based upon chatting tonight with a friend, who says they have been out of stock for weeks and weeks.. Â
Update: And I was wrong… Â
Jim posted some pictures of our booth at MacWorld. He also posted a short video onto YouTube.
Macworld 2008 – It’s all coming together now
(Via The Extensis Blog)
Because Blu-ray just won the high def dvd wars.
 I am looking forward to it – having owned a high-def Sony camcorder for a good 2 years, it will be nice to create some discs that show off the quality of the video. Â