I pulled an OJ

No, I didn't commit any crime, I ran through the airport like in the old Hertz commercial. I left for the airport quite early for my 12:10 pm flight back home to San Diego just to be on the safe side. I figured I could work at the airport as I'd be there quite early. I got to the airport and went to print my boarding pass (it's hard to print my boarding pass ahead of time when I don't have a printer and it said my flight was cancelled. While waiting in line, I checked my iPhone and saw that there was a 10 am flight and an 11:10 am flight; this was at about 9:45 am. There was no way that I could make the 10 am flight, but the person at the counter put me on it and said to go through the employee security entrance. So I did, took my cell phones out of my pockets, pulled out my laptop, took off my jacket, sweatshirt, and shoes, shoved everything in the X-Ray machine and proceeded. I forgot that I had a water bottle that had to be confiscated. I quickly put on my shoes and grabbed all my stuff than darted off to the gate. I made it on the plane with about 7 minutes to spare!

Macworld 2008 Summary

Now that I'm done with Macworld 2008, here are my reactions.

• Apple's announcements were pretty much snoreville.
  • The MacBook Air is an interesting device for some, but for me, it is lacking. I need a machine that is faster than my current 2.16 GHz MacBook Pro (Core Duo) and has a significantly larger hard drive (I have a 7200 RPM 100 GB drive). I only have one main machine, so I'm looking at a 2.8 GHz MacBook Pro with a 200 GB 7200 RPM drive. I'm going to wait as my machine is quite adequate for now (it does have a nice dent in the corner when I dropped it a few months ago when trying to put luggage on a cart; it works fine, but has a dent in the corner near the power connector).
  • The AppleTV announcement was pretty much a given based on the rumors. I'm excited to have the free software update, but will have to wait until someone hacks it so I can install the SlimServer software back on it.
  • The iPhone/iPod Touch updates aren't of much use to me, as far as I can tell. I did try out the GPS-like stuff in Google maps and it worked adequately.
  • Time Capsule - not a whole lot of use to me as I use a local Time Machine backup and use SuperDuper! to backup daily
• There was still a lot of iPod/iPhone stuff on the floor, but less than previous years. I could do without this. How many iPod/iPhone cases can you use?
• Nothing really new in the hardware front. A few new scanners, more junk from Canon, HP, and EPSON.
• No new software that I didn't already know about. I think that BusySync is an interesting competitor to Spanning Sync (I've know the folks behind BusySync for years as they used to do Palm software.)
• On the positive side, I'm excited about ReceiptWallet as I got some real good ideas for enhancements. However, I don't have enough time to implement them!

Lazy Expo Goers

The Expo that is going on at the same time as Macworld is the United Motorcoach Association Expo. I saw the sign in front of Moscone North that detailed their hotel shuttle schedule. It listed the hotels it goes to and one of them was the Marriott. You have to be real lazy to not walk from the Marriott to Moscone. It is a 3 minute walk and just over a block. You'd spend more time getting onto and off the bus than walking.

Doh, fixed a blog issue!

This week I've written a lot of posts and noticed that the "Previous" link didn't show up at the bottom causing people to potentially miss some of my excellent work! I finally took a look and discovered that one of my Wordpress plugins (Adhesive) caused the issue. I installed this plugin right after I ran my first marathon 1.5 years ago! Oh well, now people can see the older posts.

BTW, I'm playing around the theme for my blog and will keep searching for one that I like. Please don't mind my mess.