• morguefile.com Classroom
  (tags: photography howto tutorial photos photo)

Good god, I can’t get something out today. It was a low energy day at work, only minor fires to put out. I have been searching for the last hour and half for something to write about, but I have come up with bub-kiss. I created a network plan at home. I priced it all out. Whew. I would post those plans, but… that would be a security risk.

A great thing about this weekend. Esther and I have no commitments. Esther’s mom and brother are out of town, Esther’s friend Adele is spending time with her boyfriend, our friends Kristi and Casey are out of town as well, so we are commitment free!

I had better stop before I get boring.

• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Meatball Studies Major: Suggested Courses.
  Mmm… Meatballs
  (tags: humor list college)
• Infrant Technologies Store
  Beside the price… it’s perfect
  (tags: network attached storage NAS mac-compatible)
• Help, My Hard Drive is Full! - TechDigs.net
  About Mac compatible NAS
  (tags: apple attached NAS networking network storage hardware howto mac backup)
• 8 Tools For 8 Hours Of Energy-Boosting Sleep at Ririan Project
  I don’t know about 7 or 8.
  (tags: health lifehacks lifestyle sleep)
• Photocritic » Smoking is good for you!
  This has been pretty hot in the tubes.
  (tags: creative interesting photography tips smoke)
• Noisy Decent Graphics: The Design Disease
  I have design disease… pretty bad.
  (tags: design designer humor work graphics)
• First Person Shooter Game on iPod Video? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  Very interesting possibilities.
  (tags: ipod game youtube)
• Vitaly Friedman’s Notebook: 25 Best Free Quality Fonts
  We all need more fonts
  (tags: font Free freeware graphics type typography)

After all of the Apple Technology Update was wrapped up, here is my summary.

• Most of the stuff about the hardware and the iLife software is stuff that I already knew about. Not many revelations.
• Apple Server stuff is crazy cool and I’m definitely going to set up some home server.
• Podcast Producer is going to be amazing! I would love to get some hands on time with it.

Overall it was a good time, informative and I’m glad that I went.

During lunch we got an over view of iLife 06, much of which I already knew. We were next treated to the huge 24″ iMac booting via bootcamp into XP, it was a wretched sight to see. After it finished booting we were treated to a working demo of parallels. Demo is a misnomer, it booted and we got to see it. I wish I had a larger hard drive. Some questions about cut and paste and file visibility, a lot the problems are solved in the newest version.

Change in presenter, going to server and storage technologies.

Dave Wapada (Wapata?) is presenting on Apple in Enterprise. Not just a mac backend, very different from a few years ago, so client agnostic. Also heterogeneity in the backend is important.

Whoa! Tons of details about server management and hardware, most of the stuff that I’m not really super up to speed on.