with blather about the new apple stores, 101 to date, 1,000,000 visitors a day. now we`re on the new imac, more blather. we know all this. i`m waiting to be impressed. does this mean the noted reality disrtortion field doesn`t extend into the over flow room.
ooooh tiger, shipping first half of this year, but all the features we knew about all that already. oh wait, a preview.
steve`s demoing spotlight, which is the content finder built into tiger from almost anywhere, in any format. and it crashed, sort of.
next up is the mail app, integrated with spotlight, more integration with all mailboxes, smart mailboxes; allowing you to sort by content; and a slideshow built into the mail application.
also coming with tiger is quicktime 7 with a new codec H.264 and on-screen controls, realtime scaling etc, etc, etc
now dashboard; a series of widgets, including weather, currency exchange, calculator which thus far is the most impressive thing i`ve seen.
ichat also gets a bump, with up to four to video conferences at once using the new H.264 codec and up to 10 simultaneous
audio chats.
on to more stuff, steve has just declared 2005 the year of High Definition Video and just introduced FinalCut Express HD for editing HD.
and as expected iLife `05, with new versions of iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie and GarageBand, not updates for iTunes just yet. more editing features for iPhoto as well as support for RAW format.
in an interesting development, i can`t seem to log into journalspace from the overflow room`s wireless network anymore.
so i`ll just keep typing and hope for the best. imovie has new features including support for HD.
interesting developments, on stage now is the president of Sony to talk about their HD consumer cameras and is singing Apple`s praises as part of making 2005 the year of HD.
a combination of excitement and still being on CST ensured that i was awake by 5:30 this morning, but weather and train delays ensured that i arrived late enough to get stuck in the overflow room watching the keynote on big screens and almost guaranteed none of the actual keynote swag. the room isn`t full yet, but there are still 16 minutes before the keynote begins and there are a lot of journalists standing outside haranguing our handlers for access to the actual area. i`m content at this point to just deal with it. i know what it`s like, i`ve been here before, i should have braved the rain and left earlier.
i have a camera but a fat lot of good it`s going to do me taking pictures of the screen. like this
in news of swag, i managed to pick up at an event last night, the monster ipod car cable; now it`s just left for me to buy an ipod; and a copy of adobe`s indesign.
keep it here, there will be more posts, `live` from the overflow room as the keynote progresses.
For the first time in several years, Apple Computer may not provide a live feed of its opening keynote presentation at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
read the rest here
however, next Tuesday is going to be one of those multiple posting days, as i`m assured there is wireless access at the keynote and i`ll posting live as details are unveiled from the keynote.
in other news, for firefox users trying to get some more ooomph out the browser here`s a tip that i found here:
# Hit Control+T to open a new tab.
# Type about:config and hit enter.
# Scroll down to where it says network.http.pipelining
# Double click to change this value to true.
# One below this you should see network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
# Double click this box and change the 4 to 8 [ed.: some sources suggest 30 or 100 instead of 8, which may conceivably seriously tax some web servers
do what you will and may god have mercy on your soul, speed demons].
# Scroll down to where it says network.http.request.max-start-delay (makes the page start to render as soon as your browser starts recieving information)
# Double click and change the value 10 to 0.
# FireFox should now run much faster.
good luck and may the force be with you.
despite the biblical references; or because of it; this entry is about sex. if you`re easily offended or have no desire to read anything of a sexual nature, now is the time to move on.
ok, still with me?
good.
i have a personal philosophy about sexual practices don`t indulge in anything that would appreciate having reciprocated. this generally applies to men but should apply across the board.
oral sex
1. if you object to hair, before you insist on your partner shaving, why don`t you try it, see how much fun it is to completely deforest your nether regions and then deal with the regrowth.
2. for those of you that object to taste and smell, i would suggest you sample some of your own before you pass judgement. and if you`re really hung up about it, you can suggest you shower together, it`s intimate and you can ensure cleanliness.
3. spitting or swallowing – if you want your partner to swallow, see 2 (above) and bear in mind you are what you eat. there are a few fairly detailed articles on taste in a number of places but i`ve found this and this to be fairly accurate and the most interesting read.
anal sex
there is only one rule: trust, comfort and lots of lube. apply all three of these equally and you can`t go wrong.
this weekend will be the first time in almost year that i will spend more than one night away from vic. i`m going to SF for MacWorld from Saturday to Wednesday. we were planning on both going and celebrating our first anniversary together in SF but finances don`t permit. we`re doing our celebrating on the Friday after our anniversary by treating ourselves to dinner at Zola. it`s going to put a dent in our budget this month, but this is our first anniversary in three years together and well worth it.
i`m still however looking forward to going to SF, i`ve never been to the west coast, so it`s all part of the grand adventure, i realise that i`ll only have Sunday to do exploring and i already have a specific list of stuff to bring back for vic; you can`t be in love with a geek; of any sort; without some of it rubbing off on you. i also must make a pilgrimage to the Good Vibrations store.
Monday will be filled with getting my badge holder and checking out some of the pre-exhibit conferences. Tuesday is all about the keynote, which i intend to be posting live from. based on previous experience, i`ll have to get there early to get a seat even in the press area. and due to work constraints i return to Nashvegas on Wednesday, where i have to go straight into work.
we bought the boychick the four disc star wars boxed set for Christmas, because he; like me before him; is a fan boy. he wasn`t around in 1977 to see it on the big screen for the first time, but he has an appreciation.
i had been reading in a couple places that george had been tinkering with the movies for the dvds. i was pissed off enough when i heard the cantina scene had been re-edited so Greedo fires first but i had to watch the end of jedi today to confirm the final insult.
if i hadn`t already given the gift i would take it back and hold on to the video version that we have and not be so upset. at the end of Jedi, when Luke is looking out at the ghostly images of the Jedi gone before him, who is that on the far right; Hayden “can`t act his way out of paper bag, much less the douche commerical that was the love scene in Episode II” Christensen. what the hell is that?
i wish i was one of those people that still owned the unadulterated, 77, 80 and 83 versions on laserdisc instead of this incessant tinkering and in my humble opinion, ruination, of perfectly good movies.
or what a year.
this was my first post this year:
it`s hard to believe that it`s been four years since i met vic, our first physical meeting was during the summer olympics in australia. time has flown. in less than three weeks we`d have been married for two years, not the greatest two years in the world, but we have each other. another anniversary spent apart, but not completely. vic, all things working out, will be here on jan 22.
so the plan is to take the year in stages, one milestone at a time. stay focussed, stay positive.
harness everything this year has to offer and achieve my goal.
little did i know what was in store for us, three months later after a couple more hoops we would be together at last. just being together has made this year damn near perfect.
i have a life, we have a life. we`re not on hold anymore. we`ve celebrated birthdays and the holidays, we have a life, together. i miss my friends and family, but i`ve made new friends and been welcomed into vic`s family and in approximately three weeks we`ll be celebrating our third wedding anniversary, together for the first time.
i`m thankful for all the things that have happened to me this year, for good or ill they all had their lessons contained within and i`m looking forward to next years adventures.
i`ve been gathering my thoughts after the hectic few days that have been this Christmas. firstly, up until Thursday morning, i`d never driven on snow or ice, granted it was measured in inches and not in feet like other parts of the US, it was new to me. our street is one of those lovely tree lined ones your read about in the descriptions of suburbia, what they don`t tell you is that the shaded part prevents the snow and ice from melting fast enough when the sun does come out, so by the end of the day your thaw has re-frozen in to a dangerous ice slick.
the boychick was at his grandmother`s all of last week and it was our intention to drive there on Christmas eve after vic escaped from retail hell, but part of the drive from Nashville to Kingston, TN involves going over the plateau which is dangerous enough in its own right without adding night and ice to the mixture. realising we would also be trapped in our house if we stayed we crashed at a friend`s for the night. i have to say it was one of the nicest Christmas eves of my adult life and quite possibly the start of a new tradition; zombie flicks on Christmas eve. a side note, if you haven`t seen Shaun of the Dead, do, it is hysterically funny, without being excessively gory or campy.
on Saturday morning we made our way to the boychick, my mother in law and other family members for breakfast and exchange of gifts. i now have a large stack of books at my bedside to keep my company including from my wife; Watchmen and a couple Sin City books, George Carlin`s new opus from which i drew the title of this post. Eats, Shoots and Leaves, an autographed first edition of the new John Grisham, Irivine Welsh`s Porno and the new Dean Koontz. in other words i scored. vic also got me the coolest plates from Restoration Hardware which was completely unexpected.
We came back yesterday and had our own Boxing Day celebratory open house and some much needed rest before i headed back out to work this morning. there isn`t much of anything to do today, so i send my machine in to be serviced. after five calls to apple care and no solution, we; apple care and myself; are theorising i have a serious hardware problem. i`m moved in the office of the most recently departed graphic artist for the time being. this part of the building isn`t served by central heat, but i`m not bothered by the cold enough to go get and turn on the space heater.
Whatever you`re celebrating or not celebrating this year, I wish you all the best. I hope your holidays are filled with love and joy. This year is a new experience for me, the first with my new family and the first without my family. I hope to be able to combine at least part of the two in time for next year`s festivities. This has been a year of big changes for me and I`d like to express my gratitude for the support you`ve given me; morally, spiritually, financially; thank you.
May your holiday season and the new year be blessed, full of love and prosperity.
Divali, Eid, Chanukah, Yule, Christmas, Kwanza, New Year`s Greeting to you.
Be safe this holiday weekend.
there are two new animations from the otherside
a new samurai lapin animation
and Krark the penguin which just needs to be seen.
