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Random stuff I forgot to mention, and another day.
July 3, 2004 The conference is over, so I have a bit of time to catch up on stuff I forgot to say.

Females at WWDC. Yes, there were some. On the first day as I was sitting in Starbucks waiting for my strawberries & cream frappe, and two of them came up and asked if I wanted to walk over to the conference center [sic] with them. Once there we noticed girl number four. During 'Stump the Experts' some prizes were randomly given away to women in the audience... see my previous entry. Another day, I overheard someone saying it was the first time she had seen a queue for the ladies' restroom at WWDC. I was reminded of that at the Apple campus when I walked straight into the restrooms past a queue of men. That noted, there were still quite a few females there, enough that if I looked hard enough in any direction I'd probably see one. There were just a lot more males. Many had long hair, perhaps to make up for the imbalance. It has been quite common to have people compliment my brightly coloured hair so I was a little surprised that one time the comment was directed not at me, but at the long-haired guy I was with (previously known as Chris, who can be seen installing an AirPort card in his blueberry iBook in an earlier photo.) So I have one more X chromosome than most of the people there... the extra X is for Mac OS X.

I've seen about half a dozen limousines, dozens of fire engines, and even more bums (the kind that sits or stands on the pavement asking passing strangers for quarters and being thoroughly ignored... not to be confused with buttocks.) Just about every third person walking along the street during the week was a conference attendee, either WWDC or JavaOne.

Almost everybody at WWDC had a PowerBook G4 or flat white iBook (translation for the non-geeks: newer computer than mine), but I didn't have the oldest of the lot of them. As I've mentioned, Chris has a first-generation blueberry iBook. I also saw a graphite iBook and what looked like a pismo PowerBook but could easily have been a bronze keyboard. They're pretty uncommon though. Still, with the possible exception of Kim (the Apple guy who is also a magician... see if you can guess which photo is of him) nobody else had anything close to such a good match between computer and hair.

The other night when I went down to the lobby in search of free internet, I met Andrei again. I first met Andrei at Los Angeles Airport while waiting for the plane to San Francisco... he was using a PowerBook so I suspected he might be going to WWDC. We happened to be in the same room for a pre-conference session, and although I couldn't see where he was, after a small amount of chatting on iChat via Rendezvous (in an entirely different kind of AirPort), it was established that we were the people who had met at the LA airport. So anyway, that night while I was out searching for free internet he was out searching for some food, and on finding that there was none we went back to his room, got a drink from a vending machine, and I used his internet. So we both got what we wanted in the end. I also learnt to play poker, found out what a nickel is, and found out who all those faces on the money belonged to.

On the way to Infinite Loop were hills with clouds rolling over them in such a way that they almost looked like snow. I wish I'd had time to get my camera out, but I know that such interesting cloud formations are bound to be documented with better pictures than I could have taken on meteorological websites.

When we got to Infinite Loop, I made sure I had my camera out. I took the obligatory pictures of the street signs. I also took pictures of the queue waiting to get into the company store to buy souvenirs, as well as the queue inside the store. It took a while to get through the queue, and at one point somebody who had been there before said I should leave the queue and come back when it was less busy. I'm glad I didn't... that person told me today that he checked the queue every half hour and it was just as bad even fifteen minutes before the last bus was to leave. I spent too much money in the company store, I can see how they can afford to give us dinner and a live band. But how many times will I get to visit that particular address?

Once inside, there were rumours that no photography was allowed, but I saw a lot of people taking pictures, even one taking pictures of the sign which said we weren't allowed to take pictures. Due to this uncertainty and the fact that it started getting dark after a while, I didn't take very many pictures. But I did take pictures. And here they are.

Well, not just yet. You have to read through several more paragraphs of rambling first. Have I mentioned that with my 10% discount I bought an 80GB slimline firewire-powered firewire hard drive? Well, I did, and I installed the Tiger developer seed on that. I had installed Tiger on my iPod but there wasn't enough room to install the developer tools as well, and rather than getting rid of the junk on my iPod and being frugal with disk space at a time when I have a lot of things to record, I thought I'd buy a new disk, neatly accomplishing my goal of buying something from an Apple Store.

Now, there are stll a few pictures to be explained. I took a few from inside the Moscone Center, of the giant Apple logos which spanned several floors. On Friday I got back to my hotel to find that even though they didn't provide free internet, they do, after all, provide that other essential service I expect of a luxury hotel. There were three neatly arrayed chocolates by my pillow. Not mints, but I'm not much of a mint fan anyway.

On Friday night I went to dinner at Brandy Ho's (a restaurant somewhere in Chinatown) with the Apple University Consortium. The AUC provided the venue, drinks, snacks, and 'One G5 to rule them all' T-shirts at the Australia/NZ get-together last Sunday night. Although this evening's event was not intended to be so inclusive and I don't have any official affiliation with AUC, Chris invited a few people, who invited a few more people, etc, until they ended up with three times as many people there as were there from AUC. This time we each paid for our own food so it was no problem. I found an amusing notice in the front of the menu, which I thought some of you would like, either for the mildly Engrish style or the content. According to Chris the food really was hot.

Okay, I thought this entry would end there, but as I didn't get to any internet that day, there's a whole lot more stuff to tell you about. I woke up to my roommate Jeff's alarm at 8a.m, as he had to catch a flight at around 12. He told me some interesting stuff, such as the fact that there's a large number of cats hanging around the Canadian parliament. He also shared some insights from the university course in Evil he did (really!) I took some pictures of him, he's the one with the 'Evil Inside' jersey.

If you've been studying my itinerary like good boys and girls, you'll know that although I'm staying in San Francisco for a while longer, I was also leaving the hotel today (Saturday), and moving to a cheaper one not so close to where WWDC was. Jeff and I went downstairs and got the bill sorted out, and who was to appear but Chris? He's on a standby list to fly out tonight, so had today free to continue stalking me. He helped carry my bags to the Taylor hotel, which was not easy considering we were also lugging his luggage. A round of applause please. On the way I took a picture of the glass staircase in the San Francisco Apple store, with a security guard in front of it about to tell me that I'm not allowed to take pictures of the inside of the store but he'll look away for a bit if I want to take one quickly.

I'm not sure if I have the order of these next events quite right, but if I remember correctly I checked in at the hotel and then tried to use the internet from the lobby. I was most disappointed to find no wireless network, even though I was sure that's what was advertised on the web page. Another hotel without free high speed wireless internet! Oh no, oh please no! On the plus side, my hotel room even has a good view from the closet -- see picture.

We wandered back to Union Square, where I took some pictures. I have heard that Union Square is a tourist attraction so it seemed like the right thing to do. We then went in search of a Starbucks. Have I mentioned that there's a Starbucks on almost every block, but I haven't seen a McDonald's since the airport in Los Angeles? We found the Starbucks easily, and sat down to eat, drink, and use the internet. Chris sent an email to Bill, who soon met us there. Have I mentioned Bill yet? I think we met him while watching the band from just outside the Apple store. Why am I asking these rhetorical questions when I could go back and read my log to find out the answer? Probably because I have better things to do than read this drivel. Do you?

I think we went to a burger place next... Carl's Jr. It was pretty good. After that we went back to my hotel, where I paid the bill (no, not that Bill), and was told the SSID and password of the wireless network to join. Hallelujah! This place is much better than that other dive, the Marriott. We were warned that there would probably only be good reception in the lobby. We went up to my room to check the reception there, and there wasn't any. Too lazy to go downstairs again, Bill connected to the internet with his cellphone and shared it over AirPort. He's a native (from Texas) so he's on some cool plan where for US$20 a month he gets unlimited internet via his cellphone. The height of geekdom. On the subject of phones, Chris has a pretty cool one. I took some pictures of it. I can't remember why I took two pictures of it, but I know there was something special about the second picture which made it worth taking. A photograph of a chocolate fish for whoever can figure out what it is. Chris also has a Newton MessagePad 2000.

Anyway, for the next couple of hours we talked about geeky stuff, listened to my silly songs (they recognised most of them, which was pretty scary. Chris's dad even has original records of the Goon Shows) and played around on the internet. I joined their favourite IRC channels and used my newfound poker knowledge to bet people's internal organs. If you were actually here, that statement would be both funny and inaccurate, but since you weren't you'll just have to wonder. The guys also talked a lot about anime. Apparently they'd never met before but they both like anime and the arcade game Dance Dance Revolution. Maybe they should get married. We're in San Francisco after all.

A few more pictures need explaining, and I haven't got around to writing captions for them yet, or even the line of code which would be necessary to display the captions. Chris unwittingly demonstrated that the screw in his iBook can turn on a dime. We had a little trouble finding places to plug in all our iBooks, partly because there was only room on the double-plug for unearthly [if you want to be technically correct, read unearthed, but I prefer unearthly] power plugs.

Alas, Chris and Bill are gone now, Chris to argue with people at the airport and Bill to his hostel (which has free internet, like all good accommodation.) I'm about to go downstairs and see if I can actually connect to the wireless network from the lobby.

Oh yeah, my iBook's battery (or at least the software which decides how much life it has left) has undergone a miraculous recovery. I've gone from having about 50 minutes of battery life per charge to two and a half hours.

Infinite Loopiness
1 July 2004 I'm sitting on a bench next to the lawn, listening to live music at the Apple Campus at that address I know so well... 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California 95014. Connected to AirPort network 42Net, out of nine AirPort networks. Signal strength is 10/15.

I couldn't resist updating my log from here. My Mac needed to see this place. I spent too much money at the company store, but when am I ever going to be here again?

Someone else just came up to me and complimented me on match between hair and iBook. It happens a lot.
Fame!
1 July 2004 Woah... I just sat down to breakfast, whipped out my iBook, and the guy sitting next to me recognised it as the famous iBook from Woz. Just how famous can one iBook be? Maybe I'd met this guy before and just forgotten about it.

Somebody just walked past and said he likes how the iBook goes with the hair. It's been like that all week. I'm going to Infinite Loop tonight!
The Worldwide Developer Party begins
28-30 June 2004 What a crazy couple of days. I slept in on Saturday and thought I might wander down to the Apple Store and see if I could get in touch with my friend Alex. I got to talk to him at around noon and he came and picked me up at 2, in his shiny new Mercedes chock-full of gadgets. I almost hopped in the driver's side before realising the cars are the wrong way around here.

Alex called his friend Steve Wozniak, and it was decided we'd all meet at the Apple Store in Palo Alto, then have pizza, and go to see The Dead (who I understand used to be grateful until one of them actually died) in concert. Well, that was a surprise.

Apparently the Palo Alto Apple Store is the nicest due to being so close to where Steve Jobs lives. I had a look around the first Apple Store I'd ever seen, and I saw that it was good. Alex bought a pile of iPod accessories. Steve had decided not to meet us at the store, perhaps to avoid being mobbed by mad Apple fans (For the non-geeks among you, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs are the co-founders of Apple.) Instead he met us at 'Pizza my Heart' where I was a mob of one. I had pepperoni pizza and root beer... if I've had pepperoni pizza before I don't remember it, and I know I hadn't had root beer. It tastes a lot like creaming soda.

Woz showed us a cool little gadget with four flashing LEDs which goes in his mouth and makes it look like his teeth are flashing different colours. It can be turned on or off with the tongue. After many attempts to catch the effect on camera Woz remembered that his camera could shoot videos, so I think they got a short clip showing the flashing. My pictures are not too flash, but you can see a flash in one of them.

We went to the concert in Steve's Hummer, which is... well, very big, as Hummers are. It's a geek paradise on wheels, with all sorts of built-in gadgets like DVD players, and I'm told a TiVo. I can't see why you'd need a TiVo in a car, surely if you're recording something rather than watching it it's no more convenient whether you're recording it from your car or your house. I heard Steve convince somebody that the satellite dishes on the top of the car were used for chasing hurricanes and/or tornadoes, so for all I know it could all be made up.

What I do know for sure is that there were four Segways in the back... I'm told it can fit six. We rode around on them in the parking lot before going into the concert. I was a bit nervous at first but it was quite easy to get used to... you just lean forwards to go forwards and backwards to go backwards. Natural. I've never had such good balance! Quite a few people came up and asked about them, and most of them had a go. I left my camera in the Hummer but other people did take pictures so I'll see if I can get the pictures from them.

The concert was fun. I met a whole lot of interesting people who were also there with Steve. Alex disappeared for a while and it turned out to be because he'd met a magician. Through the whole concert Steve and his friend whose name I've already forgotten played tetris. During brief breaks in tetris they'd shock people with the tooth lights and baffle unsuspecting people with their laser pointers. At one point they put the cords from the tetris games in their mouths, lit up their teeth and tried to convince a lady in the next booth down that they were controlling the game by thought. She responded that it was not right, and asked if it was some kind of drug!

After the concert we played around on the Segways some more, and had more fun with the flashing teeth. They were whacking themselves on the head and turning the LEDs on or off at the same time so that it looked like the whack was what caused the teeth to start/stop flashing, or turning them on in response to having the Heimlich maneuver performed. It was the kind of thing which made it difficult to breathe because of all the laughing.

It's been a couple of days since I've had time to update this, so I'd better get the story moving or else I'll never catch up with myself. I arrived back at my hotel room some time after 1a.m, to find a strange man sleeping in the other bed... entirely as expected. I had intended to be in the room when Jeff arrived so I could meet him, but greetings had to wait until the morning. He seems nice enough. For those of you who haven't been paying attention to the twists and turns of the roommate saga, Jeff is sharing my room on the nights of June 26th and July 2nd. It lowers the cost for me and solves Jeff's problems with finding accommodation for those nights. At several points during the planning I thought I'd have someone sharing my room almost the whole time, but things didn't quite work out that way so I have this luxury 16th-floor hotel room all to myself for most of the time. Although I'm not sure whether you'd call it luxury, because my definition of luxury includes high-speed wireless internet. I might go down to the lobby later and see if there is access there.

I had intended to register for the worldwide developers' conference on the Saturday, but as I didn't get back to my hotel room until early the next morning, I went in on Sunday instead. Each person got a WWDC backpack (with laptop pouch, of course) a booklet containing session and activity information, a pen and a T-shirt. After registering I went to pre-conference sessions on AppleScript and the UNIX connection with Mac OS X. I was pretty tired so I didn't absorb as much as I would have liked to, but it was interesting nonetheless.

I then went to the Thirsty Bear pub to a get-together for WWDC attendees from Australia and New Zealand, which was already in progress. The first person I saw was Andrew Lindesay, a Cocoa developer I've met a couple of times at NZ Apple events. I ended up chatting with some geek named Chris, who I went to the San Francisco Apple Store with afterwards. The store was closed, but there was a band playing inside, so we stood there watching for a while and speculating about why there was a band playing. Of course, whenever there's more than one person standing and staring at something, other people will assume there's something worth staring at and will join in. We had quite a crowd for a while. The people inside the store seemed amused to have so many groupies. Somebody who worked there happened to walk past outside the store and stopped to talk to us for a bit. We also exchanged business cards with a developer who was in San Francisco for the JavaOne conference.

We got quite hungry after a while, and wandered the streets in search of something to eat. There's a Starbucks on virtually every block, but they were all closed. Eventually we found a 7-Eleven. They had two chocolate bars for $1.20, so I took the opportunity to stock up on the American confectionary I've heard so much about in movies. We also had hot dogs, which I don't need to call American hot dogs because I'm in America. They were made by Oscar Mayer, another legendary figure from cartoons and movies. I tried some creaming soda to test whether it tasted like root beer. I think it did, but I'm going to have to get some more root beer to check. Chris had a root beer and said it was sarsaparilla. I'm going to have to buy a can of SARS when I get home to check that, but as it's difficult to remember exact tastes I think the conclusion will be that they all taste like sugar.

Later on I tried a Reese's peanut butter cup. It was nice, as I like peanut butter, but no different from how I imagined chocolate and peanut butter would taste. I can live without them. But I haven't tried the white chocolate version yet.

Inevitably, Monday arrived. The day of Steve Jobs' keynote address at WWDC. One of the staff spotted me soon after I walked (if you can call it that) in the door and asked if I would rather be escorted to my seat before the crowds came stampeding in. It seemed sensible, and what's more, a chance to get a good seat, so I said yes. We went upstairs and I had some breakfast while we waited for the powers that be to decide we could go into the Presidio hall where the keynote would be delivered. I was seated with a few other people who needed 'special assistance', about midway through the hall and right behind a big screen. I could see what was going on on stage fairly well and also had a great view of whatever the cameras were pointing at on the screen.

It must have been a while since I last watched a low-quality Quicktime stream of Steve Jobs making a keynote, or else he just looks different life-sized. His clothes are the same as ever but his hair seemed greyer than I remembered. I stopped noticing that after about a minute, because there was a lot of exciting stuff announced. The new enclosured for Apple's LCD displays, and, oh yeah, a new 30 inch display, with so many pixels it needs a new video card and two DVI connections just to fill it. Then there was Tiger, the newest version of Mac OS X. At least two of the new features solve problems I was thinking through in the next app I plan to write, and everything else sounds and looks great too. After that was the Mac OS X State of the Union session, and I can't remember exactly what was announced in the keynote and what we were told in that session, so I'll leave you to check out Apple's web site for more information. I'm not allowed to disclose anything that wasn't in the keynote.

One of the new features is the Dashboard, and there's a competition to create the best Dashboard widget by Thursday. I don't have any great ideas for one, but Chris does, and that's a bit of a problem. You see, his iBook is even older than mine... a blueberry one with a mere 3GB hard disk. He has Panther installed (I was amazed he could fit that) but can't install Tiger because he doesn't have a DVD-ROM, or even firewire... it looks like he'll either have to do a network install or actually take the hard disk out, put it in another machine, install Tiger, and then put it back again. Major hassle either way, and he doesn't have a restore disc so if something goes wrong the iBook will be unusable. We're trying to come up with a better plan. It's generally a bad idea to install a developer preview (particularly one six months pre-release) as your main system, but when you only have a 3GB disk and need to write the best Dashboard widget ever by Thursday, there's not a lot of choice.

Meanwhile, I installed the Tiger preview on my iPod, and can boot into it, but while I'm halfway through filling in the information in the funky Welcome assistants, my Mac unceremoniously turns off. It did that once even when I was booted into Panther, which is a worry. It hasn't happened since I zapped the PRAM though, so that might have been it. Also, my date and time was set back to 1969, the settings on my iPod were reset, and my iPod pauses each time it goes to the next track. Never mind... no data lost, and I'm in the right place to get help.

I was reminded in one of the sessions on Monday that I'm near Stanford (I actually went past it with Alex the other day.) And with Stanford comes the Stanford Linear Accelerator. I'll have to visit it... the perfect prelude to visiting CERN in October.

Okay, it's now late Tuesday, and I still haven't uploaded this, because I for my FTP password wrong. Tiger runs fine since I zapped the PRAM, now I just have to clear some space on my iPod so I can install the new developer tools. I might buy a new firewire hard disk from the Apple Store since I have a 10% discount and I always wanted to buy something from an Apple Store. That way I can continuously run Tiger from the firewire hard disk, while leaving my iPod free for playing music. Since I only have one firewire port I'd have to restart into Panther to use the data on my iPod. That doesn't matter -- I expect to be doing a lot of switching between Tiger and Panther since the Tiger preview is an unstable developer seed which I'll only be using for development and stuff.

Today was the 'What's new in Cocoa' session, where another one of the puzzles I was pondering about my next app was solved. I love how Apple shares its technology with us mortal developers so that we don't have to reinvent the wheel and users don't have to learn to use many different designs of wheel. At the Cocoa session I briefly met John Randolph, who I've been intermittently corresponding with since before he went to work at Apple.

This evening were the Apple Design Awards... with lots of lights and music and people winning awards with Apple designs on them. The winner in the student section is a program I've actually used a fair bit, Curvus Pro. It makes great graphs.

After the Apple Design Awards was the thirteenth annual 'Stump the Experts' session, which was a lot of fun. As the name suggests, the audience would try to stump the panel of experts with obscure Apple-related questions, and they'd try to stump us, with points being scored according to the experts' whim. Anyone who successfully stumped the experts or answered one of the questions the experts asked got a prize. At one point, the experts noticed they had a table full of prizes and only twenty minutes left. Someone in the audience said they should give them to the ladies. All the women were made to stand up (there were at least a few dozen) and some were chosen to go and get prizes. Since I was sitting in the front row, I was one of the chosen ones, and I got a Stump cap, some random T-shirt, two packs of cards advertising the same company as the T-shirt, and an iSoundz. The iSoundz is a speaker for the iPod, in a wallet which fits the iPod in one side and the speaker in the other.

I'm sure to have forgotten something but if I don't upload this now something else exciting will happen and I'll have to type that up first. Sorry about the large number of thumbnails to be loaded, I intend to change it so that not all the thumbnails are loaded at once, but I haven't had a lot of spare time.

Long Day
25 June 2004 I'm currently on the sixteenth floor of the San Francisco Marriott, at 8:p.m. June 25, 31 hours after I woke up at 8a.m. this morning. I'm no cheesy Berocca advert, I've survived on a mere brunch, snack, dinner, breakfast, snack, and second dinner comprised of a grande mocha.

I'll try to summarise the interesting points. First off I went to the airport, had brunch with Mum and Diana and Steve, and hopped on a plane to Los Angeles. I found the brunch to be enjoyable but I doubt anyone else will want to hear about it, so I'll skip that bit. Twice during check-in I had to take my iBook out of my bag to be x-rayed, and both times somebody remarked it went with my hair. I had a row of three seats to myself on the flight to LA, which meant I could sit by the window for takeoff, by the aisle to watch movies, and on all three seats during my fleeting and futile attempts at sleeping. There was nowhere to plug in my Mac, I suppose that's a luxury reserved for first and business class passengers. I took a few photos, though not during the actual takeoff or landing since all electronic devices must be turned off at those stages. You can see land in at least one of them, the others are mostly cloud, water, sky and the wing of a 747-400. It's always nice to see the clouds from above.

At LA, I had an opportunity to sit and watch the other side of the world go by as I was waiting for a wheelchair and chauffeur to take me to my connecting flight. (Why walk if you don't have to?) There were a lot of Americans, speaking Spanish, speaking American, and chewing gum. It's just like in the movies, only more so. (I know that doesn't make sense, but I think it has a nice ring to it.) There was a man aimlessly pulling a piece of luggage along and holding a book, who would have looked to the casual observer like a traveller about to board a flight. In fact, he was a devotee of Krishna who would do his best to convince passers by to take the book (the Bagavhad Gita) off his hands. I would have taken a picture of him except he never managed to hold anyone's attention long enough for me to get my camera out. I took a single picture in LA, of the US flag inside the airport. I also bought the standard non-sports-related Los Angeles souvenir T-shirt. I've seen a lot of people in NZ wearing T-shirts exactly or almost exactly like it. I also got a Los Angeles key ring to add to my extensive collection.

Eventually I caught my flight to San Francisco. While the carry-on luggage was being scanned that time, somebody complimented me on my hair but did not make the connection between it and my key lime iBook.

I caught a shuttle to the Marriott, taking random photos along the way. The Marriott is all rather upper-class. However, I was most disappointed to find that the high-speed wireless internet here is not free after all (like it is in many cheaper hotels) but $12.50 a day. To put that into perspective according to the yellow pages in the drawers a month of dial-up here costs $6.99. And there was no mint on my pillow! It is a very nice room though, on the 16th floor right next to a lift. I took some pictures of the view from my window, and soon I'll go up to the 36th floor and take more pictures as evening is setting in.

I went to Starbucks in the hope of something to eat and some free internet. I ended up with just a mocha, and the realisation that I was going to have to pay for internet at the hotel tonight. That I did. The walk to and from Starbucks (about 50m away to my very crude estimation) was rather interesting... I wish I'd had my camera. On the way there I came across a group of people wearing George W masks and holding signs, one started to explain that they didn't like Bush or John Kerry either, or something along those lines, and there was going to be a movie about it showing in 15 minutes. I was amused and somewhat interested but I was also thirsty, so I explained that I wasn't eligible to vote for either of them. On the way back, the street corner had been overtaken by people holding signs about Jesus. I guess he'd make as good a president of the USA as anyone.

Anyway, it's getting dark so I'd better go upstairs and take some more pictures, so that's enough for now. Check out the pictures below... as always, click on the thumbnails to view the larger size. I have uploaded them as full size which will probably be difficult to see on the small screen, but I did it for the sake of making sure I have a full backup of the images.

Oh yeah... I saw a few things which certain types of geeks might find slightly amusing. First off there was the aeroplane marked 'LAN' at the airport. I've always liked AirPort LANs. In Los Angeles I saw a truck with 'K line' written on the side, which brought back memories of not being able to connect to the NZ IRC server. In San Francisco I saw a 'Luxor cab, computerised and -some other quaint techy sounding word which I can't remember-. I liked that because of the 'or' ending and the way it makes automated dispatch seem like it's still high-tech.

I need to tidy the gallery 'positives' up so they don't all need to be loaded initially, and get the subscription working, but I also need to sleep.

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