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File: June 2007

2007-06-30 :: mark // Hardware
iPhone == Hot

Last night I went out to the Chestnut Hill Mall 1) to try and get over jetlag, and 2) to see if there was a line for the iPhone at the Apple Store. I took care of (1) by getting some caffeine at Teavana. And yes, (2), there was a line. Pretty long, probably 75+ [...]

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2007-06-17 :: mark // General + Internet
(NYT) Gold farmers

Just a quick pointer to an interesting article, “The Life of a Chinese Gold Farmer”, at the New York Times.

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2007-06-17 :: mark // General
Apple’s non-sexist ad

While being somewhat fanboy-ish about Apple with fellow Olin professor Ben Linder, Ben commented that the worst thing he’s seen out of Apple recently has been the Mac+PC ads. In particular, the role of women in those ads. I think I saw the first non-sexist “Mac+PC” ad from Apple in a while. In Genius, a [...]

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Just some quick notes (and sorry for the super-long posts recently — I gots time on my hands). Korea is: Fast broadband, and without filters! I can now torrent all those legal HD movie trailers I’ve been aching to see! Awesome because of DMB — Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. I watched TV on the long car [...]

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2007-06-14 :: mark // General
WWDC 2007: Full of meh

I’ll join the long list of people that have dubbed this latest JobsNote one of the worst in recent history. It was riddled with boring demos of technology we’ve all seen before. The Spaces and Safari on Windows demos were particularly excruciating. “And if you want to rearrange your Spaces, you just move them around. [...]

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