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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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16 November 2001 - 1:15 am
Lots of fun things going on here. michael and I were both elected to the ACM Exec Board tonight; I'm president and he's secretary. I ran unopposed, but michael had to fight his way through a rather crowded field.
Before the elections, Gene Tien gave a talk about the Mac OS X and showed off one of the new ibooks. I had previously flirted with the idea of getting an ibook, but set it aside and started looking more at Windows-running laptops. After playing with the ibook a bit tonight, I was really impressed. And the ibook really does pack a lot into a rather small price tag. Here's another cool feature: you can write programs in Java and natively compile them to run on OS X. I am really tempted to get an ibook and do some development on it. And Apple runs a student design competition that Gene tells me has very few participants. As you may have guessed, I want an ibook.
On an entirely different subject, michael and I are going to see Weezer and Tenacious D the week after we get back from Thanksgiving break. They'll be at the Family Arena in St. Charles. I'm really looking forward to seeing them.
I think that pretty well catches you up on what's going on here. If anyone has any experience using Apple products, and wants to weigh-in on my ibook conundrum (should I play it safe and stick with Windows, or should I try something new and go with the ibook?), leave a message in the guestbook or send me an email. Actually, even if you don't have any experience with Apple products, I'd love to her your opinions. Hasta maņana.
Posted by on 16 November 2001 at 1:14 AM
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