Macworld pictures

If you want to see my pics of Macworld as I take them, use this link.

I'll be posting lots of pics leading up to the keynote tomorrow.  As part of ritual, I plan to hop in line by 4 AM.

@Macworld 2008

I'm in San Francisco again for MacWorld. The weather in  San Francisco is incredibly beautiful today.

I was entertaining the notion of doing a photostream, but then I realized that 1,000 other people will do better ones than I could.

Here's a few random thoughts.

1. Registration starts at 8 AM tomorrow.  My first session is at 9 AM.  Huh?
2. If you wear a *really* loud Hawaiian shirt in San Francisco, everyone will stop to talk to you.  This is in a city where there are some truly colorful characters everywhere.
3. If you're in SF for Macworld, there's a restaurant next to the Pickwick on Fifth.  They have inexpensive and nicely edible food of the sandwich and pasta variety.  Folks on a tight per diem should check it out.
4. There are two substantial tractor trailers attached to Moscone West.  One of the Apple security guard stopped me (to talk about my shirt) and mentioned they were for the keynote.  The trailers are here every year, but for the first time I've stopped to think just how much money Apple spends to do a keynote.
5. John C. Welch is a cool dude.  Yes, I'm sucking up.

Keynote Today

Steve Jobs will deliver the keynote speech at MacWorld 2007 today.

No, I'm not there.

Yes, I know I'm usually there.

Yes, my company wanted to send me.

No, really, I didn't go.

Sure, this keynote looks like it will be huge.

I've just reached a point where aside from the keynote and a stroll around the show floor that there isn't much a MacWorld for me. The sysadmin sessions are pretty basic, and there's not very good access to any Apple people. That's why I've been going to WWDC.

Of course I'll miss WWDC this year as I'll have a one-month old baby at that point.

I'm told that they've been beefing up the sessions at MacWorld for people like me. People that manage lots of Macs in pretty advanced environments (Open Diretory Replicas, Portable Home Directories, LDAPv3 & Kerberos, Oh My!).

Truth be told, I'm too busy at the agency and at Pixel Records to take the time to go over there. I mean SUNDANCE is doing an event at Muse Isle tonight. Sundance. As in the TV channel. Yeah.

I've got to stop trying to do everything. My day will go down something like this today:

5:50 AM - Get Up and get ready.
7:00 AM - Take Madison to School.
7:30 AM - Arrive at work. Work frantically on Sarbanes Oxley documentation, FTP account creation and regular support.
12:00 PM - Tune in to MacWorld Keynote. Bar door to office and turn off all phones.
1:30 PM - Keynote ends. Order whatever new cool thing was announced for myself and Curtis (my boss).
3:00 PM - Go to OBGYN appointment with Jenny. Learn gender of new baby.
4:15 PM - Return to work. Work frantically to catch up.
7:00 PM - Log into Second Life and prep Muse Isle for the Sundance event.
8:00 PM - Sundance event starts. If everything is rolling, leave in hands of Muse Isle staff.
8:15 PM - Leave work. Drive to FSU campus. Skip eating.
8:30 PM - Arrive at FSU stadium. Head upstairs (you're already late!) and set up to play FCA.
9:00 PM - Play FCA.
10:00 PM - Finish FCA. Pack gear into trailer.
11:00 PM - Head home. Too late to eat.
11:30 PM - Arrive home. Kiss Jenny. Check email and log into Second Life to see how Sundance event went. Think about hos much stuff you needed to do today and didn't have time for.
12:00 AM - Go to bed. Try to sleep really hard because 5:50 will come much too soon.

This is why it take a little while to get me to reply to email and why I don't blog so often. I need a time machine, a clone, or both.