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January 28, 2004 8:06 PM -
Whilst in America I think I got a little carried away with the shopping. I ended up buying about 13 DVD, 5 CD Albums, Mario Kart and a broadband adaptor for the GameCube. Bought a whole load of clothes and gifts as well. Looking forward to trying out Warp Pipe so that I can play Mario Kart online, will have to get Freeloader first, so I can play foreign GD-Disks in GameCube.
The DVD highlights are definately Lost In Translation and American Splendor. The other DVDs I bought where mainly old stuff for the collection I wanted simply because they where available compartively cheaper than the UK. Got one of my favourite childhood flicks The Last Starfighter, was also after however it’s not out till the 3rd February, will just have to order it from playusa.com in a couple of weeks.
As for CD’s picked up the special edition of Aimee Mann’s Lost in Space, since it has the live concert recordings, and includes her version of Coldplay’s The Scientist which is pretty damn good, then again it is a pretty good song in the first place.
Appartently it is going to get colder here in the UK, it’s even going to snow tomorrow. It’s the same weather front from Canada that hit New York whilst I was there, it’s following me!
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January 26, 2004 7:29 AM -
Well got in late last night, I’m feeling a bit funny becuase I didn’t sleep much on the flight like I usually do, managed to watch Open Range on the plane, thought it was a good western, Costner back on form maybe. Think I’m gonna get some sleep.
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January 23, 2004 10:07 PM -
Well me time in New York is nearly coming to end, just a few things left to see and do. Still have a few thiings on the Shopping List to get, so far my rave purchase on the trip has been the iSight, the picture and build quality is really something. Can’t wait for ICQ and AIM on other platforms support video conferencing. The weather has got a little better in the last couple of days however it is suspected that thing will get worse again on Sunday, more snow. Hopefully our flight out should not be effected.
This evening I’m meeting up with my mate Tony and his wonderful wife Barika, we are going for a meal at a Thai resturant on the West Side, should make for an interesting evening.
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January 21, 2004 1:40 AM -
A piece I came across today on The Onion had me in stitches : Scientists Abandon AI Project After Seeing The Matrix. Which reminds me I still have not completed my piece on The Matrix Trilogy, probably will finish if off when I get back to London.
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January 17, 2004 4:39 AM -
Had a pretty full day today. Started the day at the Guggenheim Museum, then went on to the Natural History Musuem. I had been to both before so I concentrated mainly on the feature exhibits, My brother tried to cover everything which is a pretty tough task even with 3-4 hours to spend at each museum.
In the evening we grabbed a bite to eat then went on the Knicks game, it rocked. My first live US Basketball game, I think it has to be one of the trip highlights so far. The Knicks where playing the Seattle Sonics, the Knicks won 108 to 88. The match itself was what I was sort of expected having watched Basketball games on telly and live in the UK. However the atmosphere is what sets things apart. The effort put into a single match is amazing. Why don’t we have proper dancers and cheer leader types in the UK? Why don’t schools and colleges have any level of dedication to sport? I can probably guess the anwser to these questions has something to do with money. Which is a real shame, how can we expect to be good at anything unless some investment is made along the lines.
Unfortunately it is not Baseball season, I loved the Giants match I caught last time I was in San Francisco. I really want to go to a Yankees game, the last time I was in New York, I had to fly back the day a match was on so I could not go. (Though I did manage to go around Yankee Stadium.) I had to make do with watching it in a bar before heading of to Newark to catch my flight back to the UK.
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January 16, 2004 12:21 AM -
Just got down from the observation deck on the Empire State Building, it was damn freezing up there. Managed to get some photos though so not a totally wasted effort. Having said that the weather during the morning was ok, the afternoon has been bad because the wind has begun to blow faster. Snow is expected again this evening I have my camera ready this time.
Managed to get tickets for the Knicks game tomorrow, should be great night. As for tonight I think we are going to go and see 21 grams which seems toi be quite good.
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January 15, 2004 4:22 AM -
Well I arrived in New York about 5 hours ago, have just been getting used to the extremely cold weather. Managed to get myself to Times Square at least. Had some food and dragged my ass to easyInternet on 42nd Street which is where this post is coming from.
Weather wise people here as expecting the weather to get worse overnight, I just hope they don’t get that drastic at the moment things are bareable. However I just brought 2 pairs to trainers with me so I have been slipping and sliding all over the place, will probably have to get myself some decent shoes tomorrow. I think we will try and contend with the Empire State and The Metropolitan Musuem tomorrow.
I have some posts from the last couple of days however they are on the Powerbook, so I will post them when I’m at a Wi-Fi point in the next couple of days.
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January 6, 2004 4:24 AM -
Well if you don’t know by now the major things that where announced where updates to all of the iApps, and no Apple are not producing a productivity suite (thank god) however Microsoft did announce Office 2004 which will be available later on in the year. New G5 XServe, a new iPod-mini a smaller player available in 5 different colours. The best bit of news for me was iTMS Europe, yipee! at last I can finally buy music from Apple in the UK.
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January 6, 2004 4:21 AM -
Well I was hoping that I would be able to get into the exhibit area so that I could at least watch the keynote on the screens, but they actually closed the exhibit area till after the keynote. I guess this means that they are updating the stands and putting up posters etc to coincide with the product announcements. Had to settle with going to the Starbucks around the corner to watch the keynote on my Powerbook. There where many other people doing the same thing in fact started to talk to other attendee who also showed up with the hope of getting in to the exhibit at 9am. In fact the program information that was given to us implied that this would be the case. I guess Apple had the clout to say that the hall could not be open till after the keynote.
So far I have been impressed with the venue and layout of the show, I had seen the Convention Centre on a previous visit to San Francisico however never got the opportunity to go inside. Will be checking out the conference rooms later on in the day since I will be attending some of the user group conferences.
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January 5, 2004 4:07 AM -
Well since we where about short of doing things in the evening we decided to go to the pictures again, we decided to see The Last Samurai. Now this is a great film, extremely well delivered, good story and a very important message valid especially with what is going on in the world today.
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January 5, 2004 4:02 AM -
Arrived in yesterday afternoon, but only managed to drag myself to the nearest Starbucks today. Finding free wireless nodes around central San Francisco is quite hard. There are about 12+ Starbuck in the space of about 5 blocks all of which have Wi-Fi access. Spent today at Alcatraz and just hanging out around Pier 39.
Went to see Paycheck the new John Woo film with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman. I thought it was good, beats the hell out of Minority Report which I’m only comparing it to because it was the last picture I could think of that was based on a Philip K. Dick short story.
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January 3, 2004 9:58 PM -
Well I’m of to the States tomorrow, should be an interesting trip never been to a MacWorld Expo before. The original plan was to visit Los Angeles, but I think Chicago is more probable canididate for a stop over.
Since I didn’t post anything for the last couple of days I didn’t get a chance to wish everyone a Happy New Year, so Happy New Year everyone.
