Saving the Day, Apple Driven by Design, Ditched, and Dinner with Jen

From the “Thought you might need this” Dept

So I woke up this morning and said, you know what, Mike might need my install disks and restore disks for OS 10.1. So I pulled out my box for my iBook and through it into my back pack.

In the morning I gave them to Mike, who still was trying to fix his laptop. That scored major points.

Blaine asked me to borrow my disks. I said no problem man, “Share the wealth.”

Shannon set up a dinner at Kalendar Restaurant for a whole bunch of CP people. She invited me, and I said i was going to be late because of the seminar I was going to, but I said I’d be there by 8:00 pm with Jen.

From the “This speaker is way too happy” Dept.

I went to the Apple Driven by Design Seminar today. It was okay. The speaker was a little too happy, I thought. The crowd there was a little too easy to please—they’d clap at anything:

Speaker: I love OS 10.1. It’s so easy to use. Look at the bouncy icons at the dock

Crowd: [Clap, Clap, Clap]

Overall, the Adobe presentation was awesome. Lots of integration between products. All the products recognize native file formats (.psd, .ai, etc.), so you don’t have to export your files into EPS or jpegs/gifs. Just insert as an AI file, and PSD file. When you publish, it publishes it in the right format. One advantage of this is that editing and resizing images is much quicker.

InDesign supports transparency, dropshadows, and because it recognizes .ai and .psd, you no longer need clipping masks or slices. Absolutely awesome. Amazing text handling and table management features. I was very impressed by the Adobe presentation.

My criticisms include:

  • Not enough peripheral demonstrations (no imaging or printing technology demo’d
  • Everything was demonstrated on the fastest available computer—not convincing since most people don’t own a Dual 1 GHz PowerPC Desktop
  • Nothing on Font Management
  • the display booths were lacking

Over all I was impressed.

From the “I can’t believe you ditched me” Dept.

So I leave the Apple Driven by Design Seminar at around 7:15p and I buy a book on PHP4.

I get to Kalendar just after 8:00pm.

No one is there.

I’m like, “Where are they? They didn’t ditch me did they?”

I called, but no luck.

Jen came about 5 minutes later. We had a nice dinner at a restaurant called Langolino at 50c Clinton Street. It turns out, it was our 3 Year, 2 month anniversary, so it was nice to see her and have great conversation over fetuccini alfredo.