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Tonight I stumbled upon a video of Steve Jobs introducing the Macintosh computer in 1984, and the similarities with Jobs’s keynote last week, in which he introduced the iPhone, made my spine tingle. There are plenty of reasons to doubt … Continue reading →

I only had time to scan half of the exposition space at MacWorld Expo this afternoon. The carpet is very red. The place is a-buzz with iPhone enthusiasm, and so was the stock market, which boosted Apple shares to a … Continue reading →

My Portland friends Henry and his grandfather Bill showed a generational difference in preferences for killing time this morning while waiting five hours in line to hear Steve Jobs at the Moscone Center. Tweet

At about 6:45 a.m. the doors opened to the Moscone Center, and the long, wide line flowed indoors. We were like a herd of bats, blinking our eyes in the bright lights. The line is now recreated in a vast … Continue reading →

By the time I joined the line (at 4:05 a.m.) for Steve Jobs’s keynote, the line was already stretched all the way around the Moscone Center West. I joined it pretty sure it was the right line, and this was … Continue reading →

Steve Garfield’s mother has been a great sport following in her son’s footsteps as a web media pioneer. She writes “My Mom’s Blog” by Thoroughly Modern Millie, and in this TV story, she talks about how her life has changed … Continue reading →

Alaceia Davis, who I believe is 11 years old, sang the National Anthem today at Gov. Dave Freudenthal’s inauguration in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She is from Casper, and she gave an amazing performance. Click here to listen. Tweet

Darlene yesterday finished this quilt, begun during the Fall Foliage Ramble, in time to submit it for a show that will hang in the Colorado Capitol. It’s a spectacular piece that captures the colors of our two months on the … Continue reading →

Darlene and I made it home to Denver just ahead of the big snowstorm. The city is quiet and gorgeous from my window in the den, with very few vehicles or even pedestrians. We had a wonderful month in Cambridge, … Continue reading →

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