some pictures from California
Posted on August 24, 2003
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I just went through the 85 or so shots I took in California, and selected some semi-interesting ones to post. I’ll put them in an extended entry so (hopefully, if I set the plug-in and XML file correctly) they won’t bog down those that read through an aggregator unless they want to click on the extended link below.
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home sweet home
Posted on August 24, 2003
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We’re back home in Connecticut, safe and sound. No problems with the flights yesterday (other than the fact that T-Mobile’s site said there would be access at the San Francisco airport, and there wasn’t). The girls had a great time with grandma and grandpa and all was as it should be when we got home. I’m doing mountains of laundry now and will take it easy tonight.
You know you’re in Cupertino when…
Posted on August 22, 2003
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This was the car in front of us when we got off the freeway in Cupertino. If you can’t read the small JPEG, the license plate says “LOVE MAC”
lunch on the mother ship
Posted on August 22, 2003
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We went to Cupertino today. I was half expecting for my iBook to follow the beacon, but no, we had to plot directions on MapPoint.
Someone I’ve “known” online since my days haunting the Mac newsgroups now works for Apple, and we joined him for lunch in the cafeteria. It was very cool to eat my salad surrounded by Apple posters. They have an amazing cafeteria. Afterwards, we walked around the courtyard which was the only place we were allowed to go besides “Caffe Macs” (I think that’s what it was called) We also did a little shopping in the company store. I *love* Apple’s employee badges. Colorful and friendly. If I had to describe the Apple employee culture in a word, it would be “comfortable”.
You know who you are, thanks again. 
Adobe update package
Posted on August 22, 2003
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Microsoft Watch reports that Adobe will package their upcoming upgrades for InDesign 3, Photoshop 8 and Illustrator 11 together. You could always buy Adobe products together at the same time, but once you needed upgrades it was a la carte. Makes sense and is long overdue that there is an upgrade price for the whole thing (similar to the way I was able to pay $400 and get Studio MX because I already owned at least two of the products). The article states a price of about $1,000 which I hope is for the full, new versions rather than an upgrade deal. Adobe upgrades tend to be in the neighborhood of $149 each, so I think the same $399 as Macromedia as an upgrade price would make the most sense. Like Macromedia, they could have one price if you own one product in the suite, another for two or more. I already own the latest Acrobat 6 Pro so I wouldn’t be interested in the package that includes that if there’s an extra charge.
I fully expect these products to have product activation, which is fine with me as long as the license allows installation on my iBook provided I’m not using it at the same time as my desktop. I just read that Quark will now allow you to install on a portable, for a $75 charge. Gee, isn’t that nice of ‘em? There’s no reason I can think of to have a separate upgrade-only CD anymore. Give the full product with an upgrade serial number that requires the previous product(s) to be installed (or the original CD to be in the drive at some point).
I was only planning on upgrading Photoshop and InDesign, but if Adobe makes it worth my while with a package I may go for a combined upgrade for all 3.
It should run quite nicely on my G5, thankyouverymuch. 
