I wandered down to the Sydney Apple Store opening queue. Yes, there’s only 4 hours to go now before people get their chance to walk the polished boards, gaze outwards from the steel-bracketed glass facade, and to ask premature questions about iPhone 3G.
I lent @decryption my spare MacBook Pro 15″ battery: he’s number 8 in the queue, which means he’s had a large number of cold hours sitting on a foldout chair.
The second part of the queue heads west up King Street, and probably takes the number of people well over 50.
The store looks great. I’m from a family of architects and designers, and I feel the building’s remodeling has a nice 2007/2008 feel, with some French/German modern glass-and-steel aesthetic thrown in. Being directly opposite the Telstra T-Life store is a masterstroke for design, town planning, marketing and sale potential.
The TV crews are there, just cooling their heels inbetween breakfast TV live crosses, and small magazine-style pieces about the type of geek who would camp out for a t-shirt and the chance to perhaps see Mr. Jobs who is rumoured to appear. Yes, it’s most surely just a rumour right now. If he steps off his jet this morning and appears at the ExecuJet terminal, I’ll try to let you know.
I chatted to a a few people while I sarcastically wore my ten-year-old Rhapsody Developer t-shirt: everyone was in great spirits, including the security staff.
April 8, 2008 at 6:09 pm · Filed under business, fun
I feel I can now exit my self-imposed hibernation-slash-exile.
And, in honour of CSS Naked Day, this blog will go naked to celebrate.
Being in a startup in some crucial phases, I felt I was a little too close to the industry to be blogging about it; I didn’t want to have too many conflicts of interest.
June 10, 2007 at 11:38 am · Filed under fun, mobile
I had a Nokia 7650. Awesome, but slow.
I had a Nokia 3230. Terrible, but reasonably fast. I mean, after a half-dozen firmware upgrades and repairs, the thing would crash on an incoming call, and I had to pull the battery to stop it vibrating-alert-ing itself to death.
Then the Siemens S65. Ahh, Teutonic understated simplicity. Great phone! Shame about their Bluetooth handsfree, which now won’t turn on. It just “bleep!”s feebly at me.
Then I said I wanted an iPhone on launch day. I still have the option open to me to get one, via Cingular International.
But I got a Nokia N95 instead.
For me, it’s the spiritual successor to the 7650. With speed, maturity of applications, real actual functionality and it’s an indispensable part of my working day.
Recommended!
To flesh out the bundled apps, I’d tip you get Fring, the GMail application and Salling Clicker.
…anyone know how to get it to pair with Address Book on Mac OS X, for dialing and sending of SMS? The Nokia iSync plugins allow me to sync perfectly, I just can’t “mate” with Address Book.
March 29, 2007 at 1:30 pm · Filed under fun, media
Most likely a social meta-experiment, the “Truman Show with self-awareness” site justin.tv has been viddering (what would a “video Twitter” be called?) the everyday of Justin.
Not sure of the longevity of this one; it’s probably just a time waster with a possible cult following. Like Jennicam in the early/mid 1990s.
December 2, 2006 at 9:02 pm · Filed under fun, it, media
Some of the language might be considered (mildly) Not Safe For Work, but this sounds just like the conversation two teenaged acquaintances had with me at the weekend.
December 1, 2006 at 4:03 pm · Filed under fun, it, media
I ordinarily don’t post virals like this, but seeing as though I mentioned that all my contemporaries want a PS3, I guess they (and I!) have to come to grips with what that might mean.
