According to TUAW:
This video was ripped from a videotape (which explains the lack of video quality) of the 1984 Apple Shareholders’ meeting, where the original Macintosh was unveiled.
It’s either a very good spoof, or… well, genuine.
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And in the beginning was the video
13 May 2006 – 12:06 am
hable despacio por favor
16 March 2006 – 10:11 pm
I’ve been trying to learn a little Spanish before going on holiday. I have no illusions that a few weeks of cramming will enable me to walk alongside the Rio Guadalquivir reading Lorca in the original – or even make small talk about the weather – but at least it might give me a starting [...]
Ah, the first stirrings of young love…
8 March 2006 – 1:47 am
You know what they say: Once you go Mac, you never go back.
I don’t want to come over *too* Apple-fanboy. I know they’re just a more expensive way of doing all the same things you can do on a PC. What I find quite interesting, though, is how much people seem to miss the point. [...]
The Poetry Wiki, again
5 January 2006 – 9:24 pm
Julie, in the comments a couple of posts down the page, said:
Harry,
I’ve gotten emails from people who’ve checked out the wiki and think it’s a neat idea, though none of them are playing. Yet? I hope so.
I think one reason that The Poetry Wiki didn’t take off in its previous incarnation is that, psychologically, it’s [...]
The Poetry Wiki, back by popular demand
4 January 2006 – 12:41 am
Or, to be more accurate, back in the face of overwhelming public apathy except from Julie.
Since I’ve got the spare bandwidth and everything, I’ve started a new wiki to replace The Poetry Wiki. I’ve called it ‘The Poetry Wiki‘. Original, I know. It just makes more sense to have everything in the same place.
I’ve used [...]
Flickr field guide
28 December 2005 – 4:06 pm
There’s a group on Flickr called Field Guide: Birds of the World. Pretty self-explanatory, really - they’re trying to form a collection of photos that can be used to help identify birds. It’s a great idea and they’ve already got a lot entries, though it’s weighted towards European and N American birds, not surprisingly. But [...]
he just doesn’t get it
9 December 2005 – 12:22 pm
Creative have launched a competitor to the video-capable iPod. It looks rather like the iPod except clumsier and uglier. But this is the bit I thought was extraordinary:
Creative are touting the Zen as a far more powerful player than Apple’s offering, with additional functions such as FM radio and a built-in mic.
“We are focused on [...]
Happy Birthday to me
6 December 2005 – 5:13 pm
I’ve got an iPod shuffle. It weighs 22g; about as much as a reasonably fat nightingale.
music on the net
18 November 2005 – 8:20 pm
I’ve only just started getting into music blogs, but they’re fabulous. Of the ones I visit at the moment, the ones which I’ve taken most music from are PopText and Funky16Corners, but I’m currently listening to a 70 minute mix of ‘dancehall/bashment, reggaeton, R’n’B/hip hop/crunk, soca, reggae and ragga jungle’ from Heatwave which I learned [...]
wireless networks, bunnies
11 November 2005 – 5:38 pm
I’ve spent most of the afternoon browsing around the web looking for the best way to fix the wireless network* so that it works everywhere it needs to. I’ve now officially lost the will to live. Here’s a calming picture of some bunnies:
*The problem is that the current router (a Belkin F5D7630, since you ask) [...]
On the subject of iTunes
8 November 2005 – 12:09 am
I’m sure this is old news to a lot of you, but humour me.
I’m amazed by how much it has changed my listening experience, having all my music on the computer. I didn’t actually intend to put all my music on the hard disk when I got the computer – the CD player is within easy [...]
A silly new feature!
7 November 2005 – 4:38 pm
I’ve added a list of music I’m currently listening to in the sidebar on the left. It uses a neat little Wordpress plugin called WP-Scrobbler that grabs the info from your Audioscrobbler feed. So that list on the left automatically updates as I listen to music thorough iTunes. Or at least I think it updates [...]
日本語 and all that jazz
3 November 2005 – 4:35 pm
I’ve just been learning about the internationalisation features in OS X. Which are cool. Since I can’t actually read and write Chinese or Tamil or Cherokee, I don’t have much use for them, but it’s nice that they’re integrated into the system. I guess I might occasionally use it for typing out bits of Anglo-Saxon [...]
wikipoetry and the wikinovel
26 October 2005 – 12:08 pm
[WARNING: very long post]
On TUF, there’s a forum called Morning Electroshock where someone starts a story and other people can come along and add to it. Basically it’s intended as a bit of fun. But Scavella mentioned on her blog that the other day it had, pretty much uniquely, actually created a complete story which [...]
Why no FTP software in OSX?
6 October 2005 – 2:15 am
OSX 10.4 comes with buckets-full of gizmos. So why no FTP client? Surely it’s not that unusual or super-technical to want to use FTP to send files to a server?
Self portrait (revised)
6 October 2005 – 12:54 am
Well, I’ve managed to de-purple it and worked it up a bit. I think the result has a bit more three-dimensionality to it, but I’m not sure it’s any better, exactly. I think it looks even less like me, for a start - apart from the non-purple skin, obviously. Still, it’s all a learning process.
music.
5 October 2005 – 6:37 pm
I’ve been putting all my music onto the computer. Which has been quite interesting. I’ve discovered I have an entire day’s worth of music which the computer classifies as Electronica/Dance (and I haven’t ripped all of it). Considering that, even to me, a lot of it sounds rather the same, I probably don’t need any [...]
self portrait attempt #1
3 October 2005 – 6:01 pm
Well, I’ve made my first attempt at a self-portrait in Gimp. It was kind of fun - it’s been years since I tried doing any drawing/painting, computer or otherwise. The first thing you’ll notice about it is that it’s purple. That wasn’t what I started out intending to do - I was just playing around [...]
Old computers
2 October 2005 – 5:57 pm
I know there’s not much more boring than people going on about how much computers have changed. But having just bought a new computer, I’m in the mood to do it anyway. The very first computer we had in the house was my brother’s ZX81:
The ZX81 came with 1Kb of RAM. As a comparison, my [...]
you gotta love open source
28 September 2005 – 4:09 pm
I just downloaded The Gimp as a substitute for Photoshop. And so far it looks pretty damn impressive. The interface is a bit Windows-y (Unix-y?) for my liking - not because there’s anything wrong with that, but because I’d prefer all my software to be consistent. And it’s a tad geeky (a menu called ‘Script-Fu’? [...]