Stephanie and I are celebrating our 4th anniversary today (woo hoo!) and we’re going north a bit to Stinson Beach, which I understand to be very scenic, peaceful, and good for surfing. We’re also going to see The Fantasticks tomorrow night on the beach, so that should be awesome. I absolutely adore the music in that show.

Stephanie, it’s been an incredible four years with you, and I wouldn’t take a second of it back. You inspire me every day, and I don’t know what I would do without you. I love you.

I don’t know exactly what this is, but I saw it outside my work today as I was going to lunch, and I had my cellphone on me, so I snapped it.

It’s a low-rider convertible with a tail fin, wooden side panels, plenty of seating, and an American flag on the antenna! (All… my… friends…)

Pretty sweet.

Steph asked me to redesign her blog, and had some ideas of how it could be presented, so after a few weeks (months?) I finally did it. I hope you enjoy it, hon! It’s somewhat the same and somewhat different. Nothing too radical, but a few nice touches here and there.

I’ve got some aspirations for this site as well, now that her blog looks cooler than mine. Let me tell you something: that won’t last long! What I’ve got in mind for this blog is less a redesign and more a total and complete overhaul. It’ll still be based on Movable Type, but I’m going to really try to stretch myself on the new design. I’ve already gone through two that didn’t end up working out thanks to the piece of crap software that people generally refer to as Internet Explorer. And maybe a bit of creative blockage on my part. Maybe.

But that’s another issue.

Anyhow, enjoy Steph’s new blog, and if you’re using Internet Explorer, don’t.

Dangit.

You may wonder how the universe could resist collapsing on itself when I have had access to my blog for the last two days since Steve’s keynote and have somehow not written about it. I know! It’s crazy. What invisible force could have kept me from my keyboard? (Or at least from my blog, since you know nothing could keep me from my keyboard.) Those must be some mightly powerful magics. Not just one magic. Several of them.

Well, be sure to check out the link to the keynote above. If you only want to see my personal favorite hilight, watch from 1:08:35 to about 1:31:12. And if you’re too busy to manage that, and you find yourself saying, “Dude, that’s about 23 minutes!” then once you get to 1:12:00, skip ahead to 1:26:20 and quit when John Mayer is done playing. I promise you’ll like that part, and that turns out to be 8 minutes or so. Hopefully you’re not that busy.

The iPod mini (which I just held for the first time about an hour ago, and I coddled it so) was also introduced. It’s everything the iPod is, but miniaturized! For instance, it’s seemingly too expensive, but in a smaller way. Still, I think Apple might sell a good amount of these. And obviously if capitalism drives the price down they’ll sell even more. We’ll see.

In other news, Apple has removed all beef products from its Café Macs cafeteria menu to protect employees from Mad Cow. I don’t think it worked though, because I started acting strangely and foaming at the mouth when I heard about their decision.

I’ll be on the MacWorld show floor from 1:30pm to 6pm giving demos of iChat AV and the iSight, so that should be fun! I won’t be under my own screen name, though, so unfortunatley you won’t be able to interrupt me. Until then, I shall scour the show floor for the tastiest of offerings in the Mac universe, as I often do. The booths are like blood in the water, and I am a shark.

Apple? Sure! HP? Alright. Napster? I guess. MusicMatch? OK. Dell? Please, no. BuyMusic.com? Ha! Rhapsody? Whatever. Wal-Mart? Huh?!?

But now, it’s gone too far.

Well, I’ve fixed the biggest issues I was having with IE on Windows, so I’ll give you a sneak peek at the front page for the website Steph and I are making for the CEA. The pictures are placeholders, and the links don’t go anywhere, but go ahead and take a peek.

At first, I thought to myself, “Why am I showing them this stuff? Most of them aren’t web designers,” and then I realized, it’s my blog, that’s why! 🙂

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Oh, by the way, IE (both 5.x and 6) messes up some things when rendering this page, and doesn’t support the PNG format of graphics that I’m using (at this point). Firebird on the other hand, renders it perfectly and beautifully. Did I mention Firebird is free? And better? And you should get it? Seriously, check it out in both browsers and you’ll see the difference. Download it here (6 MB) for Windows.

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