Northern Voice ’08 Begins

February 22, 2008 by Peter in Blog, Computing, Photography | Leave a comment

I will join the no doubt dozens of others that will be blogging about this event. Being my first one, however, perhaps I’ll have a slightly different perspective. Probably just the perspective of wondering where to go and what to do next…

Northern Voice 2008 is a “personal blogging and social media conference” held annually at the UBC Forestry building. It is a opportunity for the community to get together in either break-outs (Friday) or structured presentations (Saturday). Lots of representation from commercial sponsors (including some that I’d rather weren’t… not mentioning any names but they sound like wamcity ;)). Looking forward to Photocamp from Kris Krug, should be today but not sure when. Also very interested in Matt Mullenweg’s presentation tomorrow. Matt is the founder of WordPress and is apparently an excellent speaker.

Like the rest of them, I will try to blog as we go. UBC Wireless is up (I’m there now, duh) so as long as the rest of the posters don’t hog the bandwidth I’ll be able to :p.

Macbook Air Arrives cont.

February 4, 2008 by Peter in Apple, Computing, Notebook | 1 Comment

Hey look what just showed up:

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Hopefully *just* ahead of John ;).

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Fairly small, and thin of course.

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And it looks like the underside can act as a coaster – they think of everything :p.

Macbook Air Arrives

February 4, 2008 by Peter in Apple, Computing, Notebook | 2 Comments

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Got it – seemed like a while but really it came at least a week before it was supposed to. John of course jumped on the fact that he got his 3 hours before mine without paying for expedited shipping, so kudos to him for being more “jacked in” to the Apple world. Me, I’m just glad it’s here.

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Really thin and light. Surprisingly sturdy too, which is of course good news. First boot-up was a bit slow, but I would think that’s normal as it had to config a bunch of stuff. Once it’s finished charging I’ll give it a spin and see how it goes.

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Really looks nice, even compared to the iPhone it’s thin (yes, that’s a dent on my iPhone – dammit!).

So without sounding like a fanboy, so far I’m pretty pleased with this. At the absolute least I’m not going to tire of it very quickly – and coming from me that’s saying something ;).

All the unboxing pics are on Flickr.