Monthly Archive for December, 2006

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Party with the Macworld All Stars! Win Tickets to Cirque du Mac Party 4.0!

cirquedumac_logo.gif[subheadline]Enter your name and e-mail address to be entered to win a pair of tickets to Cirque du Mac Party 4.0, TMO’s party for Macworld Expo San Francisco.[/subheadline][dateline]San Francisco, CA – December 22, 2006[/dateline] – [body]Party 4.0 is invitation only, and we’ll have a big bouncer at the door to keep it that way. Between now and the end of the year, however, we’ll be giving away 10 pairs of tickets for you, the readers that make The Mac Observer possible.The party, of course, features the Macworld All Star Band, which includes Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus, Chris Breen, Paul Kent, Chuck LaTournous, Duane Straub and… yes folks, your own Bryan Chaffin and Dave Hamilton from right here at TMO. Andy Ihnatko is even rumored to be crooning his way through a song or two.

To add to the festivities, we will have roaming clowns, tattoo artists, and a Videator-powered light show courtesy of Andrew Stone himself!

You can check out last year’s party (or even the year before), including lots of pics, if you want to see what all the fuss is about.

It’s a party not-to-be-missed, folks, and you can win tickets right here. Even better, we’ve made it as easy as it can possibly be to win them.

Enter up to once per day and be sure to sign up to receive the TMO Express daily e-mail so as to never miss a beat of news again! Brought to you by The Mac Observer and BackBeat Media, Cirque du Mac 4.0 will be held on Wednesday, January 10th at The Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco.[/body]

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Memes.. we got memes

Thank you Shel….

  1. I finally quit smoking two years ago. I still want a ciggie every now and then but the urges are mostly gone.
  2. I’m really a low-tech person. I have vinyl LPs, I listen to Ham and Shortwave Radio and I like traditional black and white photography. What I do enjoy about technology is how it can help me enjoy these things, not the bells and whistles and flashing lights.
  3. Every now and then, one of my kids’ songs comes up on my iPod and I just let it play.
  4. I love to travel but I hate to fly. If I could I would drive.
  5. I’m a morning person.

There.. Happy????

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Rumors of death being greatly exagerated

I have a theory that no medium is ever truly replaced by a newer one. And languages never die even when they are reduced to the level of objects of curiosity.

So despite the FCC dropping the Element 1 test, I agree with Paul Saffo:

Freed from all pretense of practical relevance in an age of digital communications, Morse will now become the object of loving passion by radioheads, much as another “dead” Language, Latin is kept alive today by Latin-speaking enthusiasts around the world. Latin fans eagerly tick off the practical benefits of speaking a dead language, but of course they pursue their study because it is fun and challenging, gives them a sense of accomplishment and links them to a community of other passionate speakers.

The same will now happen with Morse. Passionate amateurs will gather around this “dead” language, cherishing it, promoting it, using computers and the Internet to teach it, communicating in it and building a new community of Morse fanatics to match their Latin bretheren. I’ll bet the total number of Morse-tappers actually increases and their average age will drop to something less than the entry age for AARP membership. After all, Morse speakers don’t even have to leave home to talk with their pals — they can just switch on their radio and start clicking away.

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You know you are in Palo Alto for the day when…

You’re in Coupa Cafe and you walk right by someone you know from New York without even realizing it until you are halfway down the street.

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on the road again

This time to Cali for the day. And then back home.

See you on the other side.

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