Al Gore’s been put on the front page of the Apple website to honor him for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts at making the planet aware of global warming. Another award! Way to go, Al.

We just wonder though if his being on the Apple board have anything to do with it. The bigger wonder is seeing Jobs be the suck-up this time around.

But, really, Al deserves it anyway.

(Sorry for all the screencaps and Macpics lately. Have been in Fort Ilocandia, Ilocos Norte for a conference for the past few days and it’s been hell posting anything from here. Things’ll normalize tomorrow, don’t worry.)

Well, not quite ringside. Am typing this from inside Cinema 5 of Gateway Theater in Cubao, on free wifi on an iPod Touch. Might as well be ringside for how close the ring seems.

This is a traditional father-son bonding activity my Dad and I have been doing for several years now. We don’t see each other as often these days, but when there’s a Pacquiao fight, there’s an unspoken agreement that we’ll see it together pay-per-view at a theater without fail.

The main bout doesn’t start for several hours, but we’re here for everything. Bored, I check for wifi with the Touch, and there are three free Gateway signals. So I’m here surfing and typing in the dark between bouts. Mainly because I can.

Am thinking of live blogging the fight but if I do that I won’t enjoy the event. Besides, I don’t know how JV Rufino and the Inquirer.Net guys would feel about that. And this is a Mac blog, not a Sports one.

Nothing really. Just one of the nice things technology lets you do these days.

Ok, back to the festivities. Another bout starting.

The Apple Event in Regent Street’s done, and we’re basically underwhelmed. Just the rollout announcement of the iPhone for the UK. No earthshakers, no surprises, no open-line 3G units. Here are the uh, high points:

• O2 is the official sucker carrier
• Rollout will be on November 9
• 8GB iPhones will cost approx US$535
• You can transfer your existing number from other carriers
• Same banana - use iTunes to activate, update
• Nothing new - no 16gb, no 3g, no open lines, no nothin’
• No news on carriers for other European countries

Ho-hum. For a more detailed coverage, check out Engadget.

See yesterday’s Apple Event for yourself through streaming video from the Apple site. Click here.

It’s happened before, so why not?

A special iPod nano was released as a part of the (Product)Red initiative, where red-colored and -themed products of all sorts where introduced and sold, with a portion of all sales going to a charity. US$10 from the sale of each red nano went to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa.

Now rumors are circulating that a red 2G shuffle will be released at the confirmed Apple event on Sept. 5. Cool, but the thunder of this might be diminished a bit by Apple’s earlier release of colored 2g shuffles (of which the orange became a minor cult favorite). Still and all, I’d get a red shuffle if I could. Would be nice.

A red iPhone would be even nicer though.