I am an Apple fanboy, and I readily admit it. I drank the juice.

We have a Mac Mini (single core - old skool) that our kids use and a shiny iMac for us. I use a MacBook Pro at work (G5 prior to that, and a purple iMac before that). Before the Mini became our kids’ they had a really old G3 iMac that finally died after about 10 years of dutiful service.

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UPDATE (20080729): AT&T put a captcha on the order status page, so the script below no longer works. It was fun while it lasted.

Lots of people ordered iPhones at AT&T locations under the Direct Fulfillment method, and we are getting anxious. They are shipping out, but in more of a trickle than a flood. I found a forum of other people who are just as neurotic about it as I am, which makes me feel a little better. This time last week was the Day Of The iPhone Launch, and I was like a kid on Christmas morning. I could Not Sit Still.

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I was like a kid on Christmas morning this past Friday. I took off early and my wife and I met up with another couple for a date. At the Apple store. The line in the afternoon was at least 2 hours in the hot sun, though. Bummer. I was thinking the line would have died down by then. Lines the next day were still multi-hour waits, though.

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I’ve wanted to include a little blog candy for a while, and this weekend I made it happen. I like how you can see what’s playing on my iTunes in iChat or AIM (Adium actually). I wanted to do the same thing on my blog.

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I recently upgraded from Tiger to Leopard (the newest Mac OS). The upgrade went VERY smoothly. I chose the basic “upgrade” path rather than the “archive and install” bloat or “scorched earth” start over again. I did this because I do web development on my Mac, and I didn’t want to reinstall all that stuff. Yes - I know, most (all?) of it is in /usr/local, but still.

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