New SICP focused blog
Updates to my SICP progress and thoughts will be posted on my livejournal account.
I will continue general techie focused drivel here.

Seattle SICP Study Group kick off meeting Thrs

The Seattle SICP Study Group kick off meeting is this Thursday 8/23 at Big Time Brewery 7pm.

I attended UW Technical Communications "New Perspectives" last night. It was a great set of presentations about how we find ideas and what to do with them.

Emma Rose talked about their search for problems in the former soviet union and finding mobile phone based solutions with her talk "Design Ethnography:
The Art of 'Deep Hanging Out'". Lee Lefever talked about a web application through the metaphor of throwing a party. His talk was titled "Your Online Community Is a Party
Waiting to Happen". Paul Ingram gave the low-down on "Inventrepreneurship". Jason Carmel also entertaining was a talk about website optimization entitled "Effective Use of Kittens: Site
Optimization and User Experience".

Timeline: New Mac Laptop thingie... buy or wait

1. Jan 2001 Powerbook G4


2. May 2001 iBook


3. Jan 2002 14" iBook


4. Jan 2003 12" Powerbook G4


5. Sep 2003 new Alu 15" Powerbook


6. Oct 2003 G4 iBook


7. Jan 2006 15" Macbook Pro


8. Apr 2006 17" Macbook Pro


9. May 2006 13.3" Macbook

What I really want is a 7" or 10" UMPC thingie with multi-touch instead of keyboard and mouse. NAND flash hard drive for instant on/off. I want this to replace my PPC 12" Powerbook.

I put together the above timeline using MacTimeline.com to answer the question... Hold out, or update for now with a new 13" Macbook.

Hunch... Jan 2008 MacWorld San Fransisco, Apple will release my dream "MacPad", so I should base my decision on a 4 to 5 month window. Looks like an upgrade for now, or perhaps go back to Ubuntu at home and try out a UMPC form factor tablet thingie.