Believe it or not, a picture of me was published in the September 28th of the Computer world. True story is that me and my friend were playing Pingpong when suddenly a flash went off and I saw this photographer kneeling on the ground, checking the taken shot on the LCD of his camera. My buddy asked me whether our picture was taken and I replied who really cares! Few weeks later in one ordinary day I was standing in line for the Tim Horton's semi nasty mocha that I noticed there is a story published on Computer World with the title of "A Big Blue Idea Factory" and I noticed the picture of me and my friend just right in those papers attached to the wall.

You can check out that issue of the Computer World here . Page 20 has the complete article on IBM. And don't forget that ping pong is only one of the reasons that I love IBM. Although its been more than 2 months that I haven't been playing at all.

We always think that a website giving us more sophisticated options and features for more flexibility in terms of the service that they provide would make it more useful and add more value. But I think the trend is smoothly changing to simple pages that offer only one service and more important they do it great and complete. Everyone has used Google for sure. In their first page there is a Logo and a text box to search. Nothing has changed since Y2K that I remember except the results that are enormous and much more relevant than before. Still you can use tons of innovations that come out of Google labs every day. That’s why I want to call this decade of Web 2.0 or maybe Web 3.0 in a close future the decade of simplicity. Simple pages with self explanatory design that is polished with CSS and has gotten efficient with AJAX.

2 Weeks ago I decided to buy an iPhone to replace multiple devices that I should carry around all the time. My iPod, Cell phone, PDA and my point and shoot camera. Just for a little bit of a background, I can easily call myself a good eBayer and I use it for buying almost everything that I can find there. But all the stupid procedures that takes for listing and the price tags that brings you additional charges is always an obstacle and something that prevents you for easily listing your item. I always think as shipping as a great pain the butt and the money that Paypal gets as a commission, the listing charges and shipping fee will lead me to just forget about it. So I tried to use this alternative that has always been around and I once used it to find a place to live in and I should mention that it was quite successful. So I listed my PDA, and an extra RAM and useless first generation apple Bluetooth mouse on an ugly website like craigslist. Registration takes less than minute and listing something is as simple as writing an email. A title and a text box for writing the description of the item. You can leave your number or they can contact u through craigslist which makes you anonymous during the whole trade. It’s worth mentioning that Craigslist doesn’t charge at all and also you can use it for selling stuff locally. Means people who are interested can just meet you wherever you agree on and exchange the money and the good. That simple. It didn’t take more than 12 hours that I found someone interested in my RAM and another guy in my PDA. And I finally we met in less than a week only because I was busy. Otherwise I could have done it in the next day. SO from listing to getting the money in cache it could have taken less than 48 hours which is almost impossible on eBay, Even if you list it for local pickup.

I have never seen this crazy mass of crowd lining up for an Operating System. I will never forget the night that I saw people getting comfy in their sleep bags only to get their Black Parade album signed by the artist close to HMV store at Yonge & Dundas but what I am talking about right now is those snazzy people digging in their iphones and macbooks while staying in the line that started right in front of the Apple Store in Eaton Centre and continued up to European Jewelry if you guys know that shop in the this semi big mall.

 I asked the first guy in the line who was 33-35 and he told me that he has been there since 3 in the afternoon. Basically means 3 hours of standing somewhere still to get your hands on what I call the most advanced operating system that was priced $130 for all versions. No matter it's upgrade, clean install, home premium, ultimate, business or whatever that stupid Ballmer is coming up with, in the absence of one of great men of software industry, Billy The Gates. Carrying around a SLR camera brings a lot of legitimacy that I wasn't expecting and people who were passing by keep asking me questions about what's going on here or they would pose for me if they have noticed that I was shooting but they all had something similar on their faces after my answer. They were quite overwhelmed or better to say impressed of excitement at this scale for only an OS. Lot of random people thought that there might be something on sale but I told them that Apple never puts anything on sale. I wondered around for half an hour since I was there around 5:30 and I took few pictures then I returned back to the entrance and I saw all the employees have lined up in both side of the store cheering, screaming and making a lot of noise to get people even more excited. At 6:00pm Eastern time, the doors were opened and people were greeted with smiles, tips on the shoulders, clapping and cheerful sounds. It was around 7 pm that I could finally get in to the store and get my hands on leopard and I should say that I was quite happy with the new look and cool features that all together makes a better  experience for someone like me who spends most of his life behind this soulless machine.Here are few shots

Logo of the store 

Panorama Image of the line up-> Click Here

The right picture shows a geek family I suppose.

True mac lovers

There were some who wanted to be extra cool

in my pictures. 

First people who got in the store