The Day (well, the Steve Jobs KEYNOTE anyway) is HERE
Boy, do I love this day. 
53 weeks ago, I sat, comfortable but excited, in the Media section of the audience, waiting for my first live Keynote. As geeky and fanboy as it sounds, I’ll always remember (and bore my kid to death with stories of) that day. The iPhone was announced. Burned into my memory are the sights and sounds around me while walking out after the event, talking on my new, but instantly clunky Blackberry, telling my wife “I am SO getting one of those.” And I did, 12 hours after the release, while on vacation, no less. The next day, I endured 4 hours watching my 5 year old at the play area of a mall in Southern California while my wife shopped and I played with my new toy.
It was joy, and even at $599, the cheapest part of our Laguna vacation that year. When my wife finally returned from her afternoon shopping, I had to pretend to be irritated at the long wait. In truth, I would have gladly puttered another couple hours with my new little bundle of Apple goodness.
Today though, work considerations keep me from San Fran and the Moscone center and I must watch from afar and read the live blog-updates. Hopefully, better than 2004 (?) years ago when I went to the Expo, but not the Keynote, figuring the event would be on TechTV (it wasn’t) or at least on a closed-circuit feed at the hotel (again, it wasn’t). I got bits and pieces of the action via the web, but was caught by surprise by the release of Safari, which I read about in Starbucks while eating lunch that day.
If you’re at the event, enjoy. There’s nothing better for a Mac enthusiast than huge expo rooms with nothing but Mac-related gear and software. It’s a beautiful thing.
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