Steve Jobs Macworld address in 60 seconds

I attended this keynote last week in San Francisco and here are the highlights. Actually kinda funny.

Macworld Video

I took some little video snippets last week during Macworld. 4 minutes long and will give you a flavor of the event. 50,000 exhibit attendees (up 10,000 from last year). Pretty cool. I even added music. Just click on arrow in video to play.

Macworld Tuesday 2008

Got in line at 7:30 AM which was 90 minutes early and there were 1000 people in front and 1000 behind.

Really incredible.Ended up in a conference room watching a live broadcast of keynote by Steve Jobs.

Sraddha joined me at 11 AM and we walked the exhibit floor for 7 hours. Forgot to take photos but late in the day, on the far corner of exhibits we found this cool electric car








She wanted to drive it home.

There's something in the air!

Macworld 2008
Originally uploaded by gary ryan

Just arrived at MacWorld in San Francisco this afternoon. Anticipation growing. Stopped by Moscone upon arrival to pick up badge before going to hotel. Could be loads of fun. This photo taken by someone who posted it to the MacWorld Flickr site and I have linked up to blog and post with ease!! Really cool...Something in the Air

Day 7 without power

Power just came on at 7:20 PM tonight. after 7 days. Oh the peace and quiet is so nice but so is turning on a light when I get up in the middle of the night. We will definitely be making plans for back up systems and actually already are for work since we can probably count on this happening again. Power to the people!!!

Power still out

Interesting how fragile the wider infrastructure actually seems now.

It is now Tuesday night (5 days later) and power remains off at our house and about 15 others here at Ananda Village. Expected back by Thursday. We are pretty quiet anyway here, however even more quiet and dark with no lights. Solar batteries continue to give us personally a little electricity to cook by and I can access internet.

Most of us have propane for heat and at least one room in homes can be warmed up although fans don't run to circulate air to other parts of homes. Still we have warmth amidst the 30 degree outside and we are all dry.

Glad I meditate and live here.

Wind storm in Sierra's

Friday we got pounded by wild 40 mph winds, gusting to 70. Power out since Friday AM. and still out here at Village for everyone except a couple of homes. We are fortunate in that we use oak/madron wood for heat so are warm and have the remnants of (expensive) solar system with (expensive) batteries so have a little power if we conserve by turning everything off unless absolutely necessary. I say remnants because solar panels 15 years old, but we have inverter and 6 year old batteries we had purchased when first moving into this home. Needless to say it was absolutely necessary to turn on TV yesterday and satellite dish system to watch Seahawk football game . Phone system/DSL system central has generator backup so I actually have internet and you emailed the correct address whcih still works. All that to say we are fine although inconvenienced. got some snow. 2 inches twice but a bit slushy as temp hovering around 32.5-33 do it doesn't quite get frozen. Pretty out and also very quiet. and we are enjoyning it.
Expecting more snow tonight.