I posted about my wishes for the iPhone 2.0, and I didn’t think that wish list would come in handy so quickly. I have had issues with my Macbook, Merlin, recently, it would not recognize the battery at all. Even with the battery in, when it was plugged in, would restart. I assume this is because the battery was trying to take over. The Macbook operated as though the battery did not exist, even though I had a brand new battery.

I took Merlin to a Genius bar. The Genius said that I should send it in. Today, I finally had a chance to. Which means I am operating on my work laptop or my iPhone.

I was going to attempt to use just my iPhone for everything. Email, web surfing, even podcasts. It would be all possible if… the iPhone had copy and paste.

iPhone Copy and Paste from lonelysandwich on Vimeo.

To blog, I write and then copy and paste text to make it more coherent. Conducting some of the day to day business (web surfing), I need to have copy & paste. That and the ability to use the horizontal keyboard everywhere.

So I’ve decided to take up a new hobby. Collecting the unloved Apple products in this world. I picked up an Apple HiFi from a friend for super cheap. I will be the first to admit it was really over priced. The one part of the Apple announcement that most people missed was the end-of-life of the HiFi. It is no longer in the Apple store and is probably completely discontinued. I think this leads to a very interesting niche market, collectors and Apple fetishists.

The Newton was ahead of it’s time, and now has cult status. The NeXT cube is definitely a collectors item. The elusive Pippin is a popular find among the devoted. Does this mean 20 years from now people are going to see the HiFi as a quaint attempt to muscle in on the accessory manufacturers?

One can only hope that eBay is still around then…

Alright, so I didn’t post the photos, I didn’t even take the camera. Crud! I’m trying to get back on the blogging band wagon, really I am.

Today, I have found a new love the open source software. Our MS Exchange server bombed out sometime around noon today and we have been without email for the past 4 hours. Word has come that they are on the horn with Microsoft, but they don’t really know what is wrong. The interesting thing about Open Source versus proprietary is the possibility of getting a temporary solution up and going rather quickly on limited resources.

Seeing how most open source is free, an IT department could take an old beige box that has just enough horsepower, some software (Samba, Sendmail, Courier’s imap server, Apache, Squirrelmail, Spamassassin, ClamAV, openLDAP with PostgreSQL database as a backend, Thunderbird) and any flavor of Linux OS and you can have a temporary solution up and running in as much time as it takes to install everything or plug the box in and power it up if you are disaster ready.

I’m not trying to speak poorly of our IT department, but the entire School of Business has ground to a halt waiting for their email to come back up. We shall see how long it takes

While I don’t have a video podcast, I watch a whole bunch of them. Over the weekend, a major uproar has brewed up, namely between Robert Scoble and the rest of the tech blogs on the web. Scoble interviewed Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr and scooped the gadget blogs about the 45 nanometer processor breakthroughs.

When the gadget blogs finally broke the stories, Scoble divulged that he had an video interview and when the gadget blogs didn’t really pay any attention, Scoble got pissed. He ranted, which I would have done too, but when you are essentially blogger #1, you really have to watch what you say.

TDavid at MakeYouGoHmm.com makes a very accurate not about the entire problem that Scoble has: He needs to edit!

I’m probably echoing what TDavid’s intent was, if Scoble would edit his shows, change camera angles, or just make them more interesting, I would still be a subscriber. When Scoble announced that he was making a video podcast, I signed up right away, but after episode 2, I started watching them on a very, very casual basis. Finally when my hard drive was filling up with the high def video podcasts, I had to make a decision. I watched two episodes, trying to see if I could get back in the swing, but after watching 30 minutes of Vassil Mladjov, CEO of Blogtronix, I had to pick myself up off the desk, wipe the drool away, unsubscribe from the podcast and then promptly deleting all of the accrued files.

I doubt Scoble will read this, but if he does: Edit your shows. I can’t spare 45 minutes. Give me a 10 minute bite and then the option of getting the raw stream. That would be fabulous.

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.