{"id":165,"date":"2006-01-17T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/quick-trip-to-northern-virginia\/"},"modified":"2006-01-23T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T13:10:06","slug":"quick-trip-to-northern-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/quick-trip-to-northern-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick trip to Northern Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in DC today, waiting a couple of hours for my meetings to start. Once they get going, it looks like they won&#8217;t slow down until late in the evening! I&#8217;ve run through my slides and my demo a number of times now, and I&#8217;ve got them down pretty well. I&#8217;m not very sure how much actual presenting I&#8217;ll be doing &#8212; it looks a lot like I&#8217;m here for discussions as well as demonstrations. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, I stopped in the Apple Store at Pentagon City Mall and took a look at a 20&#8243; Dual Core Intel iMac. It&#8217;s a very nice machine! This one doesn&#8217;t even have a cracked screen. Scott ordered one the day they were announced, and now unfortunately he has to wait until he gets a good one, because the screen was cracked in transit. Interesting visual effect, but it would probably get old. <\/p>\n<p>I took a couple of snapshots with the Photo Booth software and built-in iSight. Both performed well. The <a href=\"\/images\/photoBoothMug.jpg\">picture<\/a> seems at first glance to be a lot better than what we get from our old non-integrated iSight. I&#8217;ll definitely be asking Santa for one of these or something equivalent; it&#8217;s a step in the right direction for Apple! I can&#8217;t wait<br \/>\nto see how the laptops perform, and hope the speediness filters back down the line to the iBook, or its Intel Mac equivalent. I don&#8217;t think they could call it the iMacBook, could they? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m supposed to have a working lunch with some folks at 2 or so, but I was already hungry after getting up at 3:40 AM to catch my 6:30 AM flight out of Columbia. I didn&#8217;t want to spoil my late lunch, so I had some really good tabbouleh and a falafel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in DC today, waiting a couple of hours for my meetings to start. Once they get going, it looks like they won&#8217;t slow down until late in the evening! I&#8217;ve run through my slides and my demo a number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/quick-trip-to-northern-virginia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}