Keynotes, injustice, and the joys of traveling

I’ve been a Mac user for a very long time. Possibly longer than some of the people reading this has been around. I’ve went through the eety-beety classic 9-inch Macs. The nearly impossible to add Ram to Mac IIs, Performas, Quadras, Classics, Centris…eses, missteps, mistakes, blunders, rises, and falls of this company and I have never failed to be impressed by what magic is pulled out of the hat to keep it going. For every Pippin, there’s an iPod. For every G5 that never QUITE made it to 3GHz, there’s a 45-nanometer Intel 4-core monster waiting to be unleashed. It all seems to come into focus in early January for Macworld.

Before I start talking about that, I’d like to say thanks to Bud who I sat next to on the long flight from Philadelphia after a four hour (yes, four hours) layover from DC. He lent me a pen so I could play some Karuro (some people also call them cross-sum puzzles) on the plane after the battery finally ran out on my iPod.

Ran into a lot of Mac people or at least people that have both Macs and Windows based PCs in their home. Quite a change from 5-6 years ago when having a Mac laptop garnered quite a bit of stares from people wondering why I didn’t have a Dell. Enough about that, let’s talk about Macworld.

AH Macworld! The feverish anticipation, the banners that say something that just seems out of the grasp until Steve hits the stage with just “One More Thing (patent pending).

This year of course, we MyMacers have been banned from the Keynote for reasons that have yet to be adequately explained, but that’s OK. Did it it last year, bought the T-shirt. Sure it would have been nice to be there again, but I’ll let it go. What isn’t so OK is that when we arrived this morning I wasn’t even registered as a member of the media. Fortunately it wasn’t that hard for them to get me in, so I guess I’ll let that go too.

Now of course by the time this is posted, the Keynote will be over and all the new Apple devices are known. I won’t go into those here, but will continue this on another post. We’re here, but unclear, so get used to it!