Thursday, June 19, 2003
A personal note to readers
The big day is almost upon us. No, not the Steve Jobs Keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference on Monday. I'm referring to my friend's wedding on Sunday. I'm actually going to be in this wedding, and let's just say that the sight of me in a tuxedo is even scarier than it sounds. At least I think so, as it's been a good five years since I've actually worn one. This ought to be fun. My friend and his fiancee are a fantastic couple, and it's about time they finally tied the knot.
As a result of the whole wedding thing, I'm afraid there will be precious little blogging for the next few days on my part, but I do plan to make up for it. I'll be watching Steve's Keynote at the Apple Store at The Falls (Miami) on Monday, and I'm sure I'll have plenty to write about it thereafter.
The one Mac-related tidbit that I'll mention is that our front office managed to successfully migrate to MacOS X this week. Their workflow remains intact, and they seem to be happy with the change. There has been no talk whatsoever of going back to OS 9. Instead, iChat (over Rendezvous) is suddenly the new preferred method of communication among front office members. I essentially set it up as a demonstration of the kinds of cool things OS X is capable of, but apparently it's going to be a permanent fixture. Grab the phone and call two offices down just to ask a quick question? Nah, just send an instant message. Even I didn't think that the intra-office iChat thing would be this easy to implement. With new tools like that, no one seemed to mind adjusting to the new locations for application shortcuts and documents, the new version of MS Office, the new way of logging into servers, etc. There will be plenty more to write about this, once the situation finishes fleshing itself out. We'll see how it all goes. The big test will be in August when the school year officially starts up again. But by then, all involved will have had enough time to learn, adjust to, become fully comfortable with, and begin to milk the power of OS X for all it's worth. In terms of making the workflow easier, iChat over Rendezvous is potentially just the beginning.
There's so much going on in my life lately, I can barely afford to even think five minutes ahead. Still, I can't wait until Monday. I have a gut feeling that Steve Jobs is about to take over the world yet again. The G5 rumor talk is fun to read (someone even wrote to me today to tell me that he spent time with five demo models), but what I find most interesting is the seeming near-total lack of specuation about what MacOS X Panther will bring to the table. I think it's because OS X is about to evolve so far past what any of us mere mortals can perceive when imagining an operating system, that none of us have a clue about what's coming next.
If you're at the Apple Store at The Falls on Monday for the Keynote, be sure to say hello. I'll be the one wearing the hat with the Dave Matthews Band logo on it. I hope I won't still be wearing the tuxedo.
The big day is almost upon us. No, not the Steve Jobs Keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference on Monday. I'm referring to my friend's wedding on Sunday. I'm actually going to be in this wedding, and let's just say that the sight of me in a tuxedo is even scarier than it sounds. At least I think so, as it's been a good five years since I've actually worn one. This ought to be fun. My friend and his fiancee are a fantastic couple, and it's about time they finally tied the knot.
As a result of the whole wedding thing, I'm afraid there will be precious little blogging for the next few days on my part, but I do plan to make up for it. I'll be watching Steve's Keynote at the Apple Store at The Falls (Miami) on Monday, and I'm sure I'll have plenty to write about it thereafter.
The one Mac-related tidbit that I'll mention is that our front office managed to successfully migrate to MacOS X this week. Their workflow remains intact, and they seem to be happy with the change. There has been no talk whatsoever of going back to OS 9. Instead, iChat (over Rendezvous) is suddenly the new preferred method of communication among front office members. I essentially set it up as a demonstration of the kinds of cool things OS X is capable of, but apparently it's going to be a permanent fixture. Grab the phone and call two offices down just to ask a quick question? Nah, just send an instant message. Even I didn't think that the intra-office iChat thing would be this easy to implement. With new tools like that, no one seemed to mind adjusting to the new locations for application shortcuts and documents, the new version of MS Office, the new way of logging into servers, etc. There will be plenty more to write about this, once the situation finishes fleshing itself out. We'll see how it all goes. The big test will be in August when the school year officially starts up again. But by then, all involved will have had enough time to learn, adjust to, become fully comfortable with, and begin to milk the power of OS X for all it's worth. In terms of making the workflow easier, iChat over Rendezvous is potentially just the beginning.
There's so much going on in my life lately, I can barely afford to even think five minutes ahead. Still, I can't wait until Monday. I have a gut feeling that Steve Jobs is about to take over the world yet again. The G5 rumor talk is fun to read (someone even wrote to me today to tell me that he spent time with five demo models), but what I find most interesting is the seeming near-total lack of specuation about what MacOS X Panther will bring to the table. I think it's because OS X is about to evolve so far past what any of us mere mortals can perceive when imagining an operating system, that none of us have a clue about what's coming next.
If you're at the Apple Store at The Falls on Monday for the Keynote, be sure to say hello. I'll be the one wearing the hat with the Dave Matthews Band logo on it. I hope I won't still be wearing the tuxedo.
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