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I had the most interesting experience today, while walking downtown from one building to another. As I was enjoying the Seattle sun, listening to tunes on my iPod, I noticed at the intersection that I was about to cross that the driver of a pickup was asking me for directions.

So I took out my headphones and listened to his question. Then I took it all in. It was a kid, about 19 years old. He was driving a 1970’s-ish pickup. Window busted, partially covered up with cardboard. He had a soul patch. Blonde hair. Blue eyes. Well groomed for what he had. He seemed in a hurry to get somewhere. He asked, “Can you tell me where Rainier (ave) is?” Knowing what I know about downtown Seattle and how hard it is to explain how to get from there to the rest of the city, specifically the south end, I did my best to get him started but let out a sort of sigh (and a gentle expletive) because I knew I wouldn’t explain it well. But I did my best, because he seemed anxious to get there. And stuck. And out of his sorts, in the middle of downtown, looking late, in a truck falling apart, and with a sort of desperation in his eyes. Kind of like this was his only chance at something. The light turned green and he sped on his way, still not knowing exactly how to get from here to there.

I have no idea if my read of the situation was accurate. But it made me pause in the gorgeous Seattle sun, to think about the Ennis’ and the Jack’s of the world. I wasn’t thinking about the gay thing, but about the empowerment thing. It just seemed like he was in a race to get a chance at something, and he just wasn’t going to make it. Like there would never be enough time for him. Never enough time.

I hope he made it.

When it’s this nice outside, even something like this can’t get you down.

It’s just not time to get an Intel Mac with these results. Office 2004, while not taking a performance hit, is ultimately not faster on the new MacBookPro. So why spend $3000 on a new computer when the applications don’t go any faster?

I hope a Universal Binary for Office 2004 will come out. I disagree with people who say it’s not a good piece of software. It’s pretty good…it just needs to be a little faster…..

Office 2004 Benchmarks on Intel-based Macs

Walking the latte trail to safeco field.

The news is buzzing lately about Apple Computer being sued by Burst, Inc. I thought this article in Businessweek paints a more full picture of what is / is not going on. Like most stuff in this realm, I bet the “truth is out there somewhere.”

On the one hand, you want to emphathize with the little guy who may have demonstrated a new way to do something cool to the big guy, who then took it and made a lot of money off of it (that’s the allegation). On the other hand, you don’t want to empathize with the little guy who may be ultimately preventing important innovation from reaching a lot of people. For better or for worse, the article says that Burst’s founder made $2.5 million off of the Microsoft settlement. How much more should be extracted from consumers at this point?

Best of luck to the winner, whoever that is.

Underdog Or Patent Troll?

I see a sea of apple logos at this internet cafe. They’re really winning.

Courtesy of the 3G iPod battery settlement (where some iPod owners sued Apple in a class action). On its way. Let’s see if it’s any fun.

PS, the terms of the settlement are on the restrictive side in terms of what you can buy and where. Rules, rules, rules. You can grab the FM tuner and one of those dock converter thingies for $9.00 and then you’ll able to buy buy buy!

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