Ten years ago (OK, May 6, 1998) the iMac was introduced. I'd argue that this is the product that really brought Apple back. Granted, they missed the target on a couple of things, mostly the round mouse and the lack of CD burning. Dropping ADB and serial stuff for USB was a huge step forward and a bit risky.
I've still got my rev B version, which makes it just over 9 years old.
TORN chats with del Toro about some basic plans for The Hobbit and whatever they'll call that pesky second film. Not too much info, but worth a read.
The expected has occurred. Adobe has (quite abruptly) killed off GoLive effective today. Sigh. Seems that the writing has been on the wall for some time, with Dreamweaver replacing GoLive in CS3 and comments made by Adobe along the lines of "we'll continue developing the product if there's customer demand". I've been a user of GoLive since version 4 back in 1999. We're not scheduled for an upgrade to CS3 anytime soon--I imagine we'll get CS4 whenever that happens, so we won't have to transition and learn Dreamweaver for sometime yet.
Well, that took long enough. Guillermo del Toro has been signed to direct The Hobbit and its sequel. Filing to start next year, with movies released in 2011 and 2012.
Yes is going on tour in 2008. I can hardly remember the last time I saw them live. Must have been 10 years ago. VH1 Classic is sponsoring the Close to the Edge and Back tour. Tour dates are here, press release is here. More info can be gleaned from a February interview with Jon Anderson here. Rick Wakeman is sitting this one out; his son Oliver will man the Mellotron.
They'll be in Chicago at the Charter One Pavilion on Northerly Island on Friday, July 18. Tickets go on sale March 29.
LEVEL 2 GEEK ALERT:
CBS has streaming video of the first three seasons of Star Trek. Caught a little bit of "Tomorrow is Yesterday"—looked pretty good.
GEEK MESSAGE ENDS
The Currently Reading bit of the right sidebar should really be called Currently Broken. I was running into problems with an older version of the Media Manager plugin for Movable Type, which pretty much appeared out of nowhere. I upgraded to the latest version, which displays it data in an entirely different was (so not obvious based on the notes I'd read). I need to redo that sidebar to get things to appear correctly. I'm currently reading Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, And Discovery of the New World, which has been a pretty decent read on the rise of fishing and preservation technology in the Dark Ages to the discovery of North America.
There's a set of five character shots from Watchmen over at Dark Horizons. Looks like they've nailed the character designs, although Night Owl looks a bit darker than in the book. Looking forward to the film.
I think I've now officially crossed over into running geek mode. The Garmin 305 just arrived:
GPS goodness and all sorts of data to track.
Now if the weather would just warm up I could get back into running again.
Great review of the first issue of Wired here. Much of what is mentioned there held true for the early years of the magazine--crazy layouts & color choices. It was a wonderful internet resource in a pre-web world of Gopher and mailing lists.
A browsing of Wired's cover archive reminds me that I started reading the magazine back in 1994 with issue 2.03, the Laurie Anderson cover. Tossed a whole bunch of the back issues out a couple of years ago, although I still have a handful of random issues sitting around the office at work.
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