September 2007 Archive

More pens for the pen jar please

posted by DL Byron on September 23, 2007

Pam said, “can you get anymore pens in that jar.” And I said, “why, yes, I think I can, please order them from Costco.”

from the dreeping set on Flickr.

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Overheard at IDF

posted by Jason Swihart on September 20, 2007

Sitting behind me at the upload lounge, a man and a woman discussing his MacBook Pro:

“What happened to your Lenovo?”

“It’s in a locked drawer back at the Farm. I probably haven’t booted it in over a year.”

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Ubiquitous Sensors, Nehalem, and More

posted by DL Byron on September 18, 2007

While the Intel Developer Forum, with a focus on mobility and ubiquity, is on in San Francisco, there’s a local Seattle connection at the UW’s Intel Research Lab. The lab is working on ubiquitous sensor technologies. To sense stuff like water, perspiration, drugs, and your location.

For more on Intel’s latest technologies, like Nehalem announced today, check their Technology and Research blogs.

Textura Design designed and developed Intel’s Blog Network and we’re blogging now with them at the IDF.

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Live Blogging IDF San Fran

posted by DL Byron on September 18, 2007

Jason is in San Francisco today at the Intel Developer Forum, blogging it up, checking the scene, and spotting iPhones and UMPCs. An unfortunately named product category, but UMPCs are a real focus in San Fran: being mobile and ubiquitous.

At IDF Beijing, we got to see a UMPC prototype and it’ll be interesting to see how far they’ve progressed since then.

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iPhone Price Drop

posted by DL Byron on September 06, 2007

Had Apple not replaced a defective phone and replaced the one I’d dropped for free, yep, I’d be pissed about the price drop as well.

The forums are ablaze with the unfairness of it all and the early-adopter tax. If there were such a thing, instead of aggressive pricing in an aggressive industry, the tax I paid was worth the R&D (on an amazing product) and the service I received.

This one time I was very diligent on purchasing a 17-inch Powerbook G4, watching all the sites, timing it to a planned announcement, got and i thought I’d hit it just right. A month or so later, Apple bumped the line on their store with higher resolution and speed. “That’s how it goes,” I thought.

What did concern me was that Steve Jobs said something like, “we were planning a price cut all along,” that I think contributed to the uproar.

Update

Steve wrote an open letter to iPhone customers offering a $100.00 credit.

Thank you.

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The Fountain

posted by DL Byron on September 04, 2007

The boys were interested in the fountain for about 5 minutes then onto the next thing.

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Urban Fishing

posted by DL Byron on September 04, 2007

Each year, on Spokane Street, East of Harbor Island, crowds gather to fish the salmon runs entering the Duwamish River. This year, for some reason, the pier is packed and the people are catching pinks, lots of them …

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Note to self (one of several)

posted by DL Byron on September 02, 2007

“Do not play old school gangsta rap from Dr. Dre during family dance time on Sundays.”

Especially when the song starts off with “beeeeeeaaaatch!”

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