Valleywag has posted a video where Apple founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak meets Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyons. Woz introduces Lyons to the audience and presents him with a real black mock turtleneck from the Apple mothership.
Now all we need to wait for is when Fact actually meets Fiction - although I’m not quite sure how good a sport Real Steve Jobs is these days. Let’s all hope.
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 pods in the Doodler’s possession at the moment. (Yes, that’s my grubby hand.)
Roughly a quarter of a terabyte of storage right there. And six pairs of headsets. Somewhere.
Conspicuous by its absence is the original 5gb I bought when it first came out in 2001 (yes, I am a shameless early adopter), when all this iPod mania wasn’t even a gleam in Jobs’ eye. In a moment of weakness I sold it, as I eventually would a white, button-happy 4th Gen. Shoulda kept them. Hope to add a Touch to this handful someday.
Another view:
Not quite Mac-related news, but important just the same:
I’d like to just announce that MacADoodle is joining the Inquirer.Net blog network soon, and it’ll put this little Mac blog within the reach of a much wider audience, not just that lovable little enclave of Mac fanatics (and bashers) who currently read it today.
The Inquirer.Net website is the largest news portal in my country, with 1.8 million uniques and 25 million pageviews a month from across the world. It’s the online presence of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the largest and most influential newspaper we have here, but it’s much more than just a digital version of the newspaper. It has its own writers and staff, and more updated, dynamic content than the paper itself.
We’re currently exporting the archives and testing the waters at the moment, and we’ll make a formal turnover soon. This is basically just a heads-up, so you know what’s happened if this site stops updating all of a sudden. Even with the transfer, it’ll largely be the same old site, maybe with a few new features and a slightly different look, so don’t worry. Anyway, I’ll make sure you guys know the new URL and feed for MacADoodle as soon as it firms up, but for now, monkey business as usual.
I’d just like to say too that MacADoodle is proud that Inquirer.Net asked us to join their network. I hope this is the start of something bigger and better. A big MacADoodle Slobbering Thank You in advance to the site and to Mr. JV Rufino and Mr. Joey Alarilla, both rabid Mac users themselves (Joey’s just got on the boat, actually, and he’s been scratching his head saying to himself, where has the Mac been all my life?)
Anyway, yun lang po.
Nothing really. Just wanted to say I got a tricked-out 20-inch 2.4GHz aluminum iMac this morning, and I am in love.
I can’t get over how nice this thing is. I’ve had troops of our graphic artists and editorial folk coming in and out of my office oohing and aahing at everything from the thin keyboard to the silver casing to the black logo and glorious screen. Man.
Full review coming soon.
Ok, now back to regular programming.
