Setting the hook
I'm still ruminating on the events at last weekend's geek fest. It takes me a while to unwind the stack after those events. I tend to sponge up everything I can while I'm there, then let the 'ol brain churn on the data for a while.
Believe it or not, there's one thing that keeps nagging at me after this weekend. No, it's not the news that web services may not turn out to be exactly what we dreamed. (Actually, it is what we dreamed... about 20 years ago.) OK, what I'm still quite enamored with is the new Mac OS X. The PowerBook is everything I want in a laptop - elegant form factor, beautiful user interface, and Unix under the hood. It's what I was looking for a few years back with Linux, and more!
I just noticed that new drops of Eclipse (my IDE of choice these days) will include a Mac build. It's a plot to rope me in, I tell ya. It doesn't help that everywhere I happen to go these days there's that illuminated piece of fruit like a siren song.
Anyway, it's a strange situation for me because I've never paid homage to the Mac cult. But I must admit, they've got me thinking...