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Lunch in Chinatown - Back to the 50s for Dinner

Posted 08.8.2006 in Food, Travel at 11:40 PM

House of Nanking PhotoThe food today was great: sesame chicken at the House of Nanking in Chinatown for lunch and a hot open-faced turkey sandwich with fries and vanilla milk shake at Lori’s Diner on Powell for dinner.

Tomorrow will be a bag lunch at the conference while listening to a Pixar presentation, then dinner at Roy’s on Mission Street. Can’t wait for that desert: Roy’s Melting Hot Chocolate Souffl?©…DK

iTunes U

Posted 08.8.2006 in Technology at 9:22 PM

Didn’t know much about this until today: iTunes U

It’s only open to U.S. and Canadian non-profit universities right now, but I can see all sorts of ways this could be used at the high school level by an organization like HSRA. I’m going to hound the product manager again to see if we could be a test site for the K-12 segment. Here are examples from UC Berkeley, Duke and Stanford…DK

WWDC First Day Thoughts

Posted 08.8.2006 in Technology at 2:32 AM

WWDC Day 1 Pictures

We arrived at about 7:15am to get our credentials and get in line for the keynote, which was much better organized this year. Everyone was seated early and the Steve Show started right on time. After reading today’s story in the Wall Street Journal about the timing of Steve’s options, I was curious if he would spend as much time on the financial performance of the company as he usually does at WWDC. Nope–only a quick mention of retail store numbers and overall Mac unit and market share growth. Come to think of it, no mention of iPods at all today, either. (more…)