So I'm sure you probably noticed more than a few DXers talking about Apples lately, Our CTO Julian just tweeted that his new IPhone 3GS was on it's way to him, and Evangelist Gary just blogged about new features in the latest IPhone 3.0 software, the other day Silverlight guru Azret had as his FaceBook status "Hating myself for loving the IPhone UI", and you probably recognize these likely lads and that ... let's face it ... "In Your Face" logo on the back of the latptop they are both clearly mocking.
That logo is so "In Your Face", that at a recent conference (run by a company that shall not be named) where Oliver was speaking, a conference room functionary was dispatched by some marketing weasel to slap a sticker over the Apple logo on his laptop while he was in mid-present.
I've just got myself a new 17" MacBookPro myself (I'll blog later about how to set up a Mac for developing .NET apps) and I've also been using an IPhone for 6 months so I guess I'm as much an Apple Fanbois as anyone else here ... but that gaudy Apple logo is giving me the irits. I paid enough for this laptop, I'm not going to give away any more free advertising to them.
What I really want is to get some inkjet printed surface tension held "sticker" to put over it ... maybe I'd do an old school Apple II Rainbow (My first PC back in 1980) or a map of Australia or such.
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Speaking of Australia, as you may know we're drifting as a continent towards Japan at a rate of about 6cm a year ... or about one ninth of a cubit for my nonmetricated friends. As we are headed north we seem to be dropping bits of giant limestone islands off the southern edge of the continent, and in our trip around Australia we took a very windswept trip out to see some of these called the 12 Apostles.
This is the southern most edge of Australia, and that wind is bitterly cold comes directly from Antarctica and smells of penguins. You can see some of the 12 Apostles in the background. Those are the giant limestone Islands, and because they are essentially chalk left out in the elements they erode rapidly and dramatically.
Check out the interesting way this one is eroding ... at its top left ... see that hole in the limestone that you can see through to the waves behind?
That bloody Apple logo ... it's everywhere.