21. June, 2003 - happy solstice
- Solstice revellers watch sunrise at Stonehenge this morning.
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Meanwhile at MacHack, I’ve finally (as of 9:30pm) got a decent network connection, so I finally get to do the update for the day. The pictures are from last night, and I didn't get any decent pictures from the award banquet tonight, so these will probably be the last ones from the conference.
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The pizza got swarmed once again, but it seemed like there was more left after the initial rush. There was some doubt as to whether or not there would be pizza before the Hack Show, and there were signs up saying that if people didn't donate, there wouldn't be pizza. Apparently the signs bugged Leonard and I at the same time, since we both walked into ops and asked how much it would take to make there be pizza. Then we kicked in that much.
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Considering that attendance was down this year, the Hack Show was still pretty good. There were about 50 entries, and we ended up going until the wee hours (
Wee!
) before we got to see the last hack and call it a night. The fifth hack of the night (Unstoppable Progress
) was far and away the best of the lot, and I felt a little bad for the people who had to follow it. One of the bigger problems with the hack show is that people who show their hacks late not only face a tougher crowd, but also face a smaller crowd as some people have decided to go to bed.
- MacMegasite has a brief MacHack Report with more to follow (perhaps by the time I get this posted, but perhaps not). I think it’s been a pretty good show, and while attendance may be down a bit, and the network has been a bit flaky, the conference has been pretty good so far.
- Metrowerks has a presentation on Friday about PowerPlant (PDF) for Mac OS X. Sounds interesting, but I sure wish it had been along a couple years ago. In order to get applications I work on done for Mac OS X, we’ve had to avoid PowerPlant because it wasn’t ready for X yet. Sigh.
- One of the fun presentations on Friday was Keith Stattenfield’s Keith Explains (it was titled
Mac OS 9: The Return
). Keith talked a bit about how Mac OS 9 was dead, and then showed his show (#115) about Puppetry of the Penis and his take was pretty hilarious.
- GIF patent dead at 20 as of yesterday. I wonder how Unisys will make any money now.
Copyright 2009, Dave Polaschek.
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