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The smell has been variously described as "new car smell", "musty", "rotting carpet" and even cannabis.
"My entire room smells bad and I have had to resort to a few air fresheners just to be able to work on it," one report read. (link; my emphasis)

"Otherwise my mom'd, like, totally freak. She's such a square, but I know she was a flower child in the sixties," continued Chad, before returning to his marathon Second Life session.

If you plug in your iPod while the screen is locked, upon unlocking the screen you can see the dialog box that tells you your iPod is corrupted. Ejecting and replugging cures the alleged corruptedness.

Actually, I'm not sure this is irony, but that's a whole other discussion. Anyway, as noted to wisn just now: I spent an amount of time fiddling with calendars on my Linux laptop, including hacking up a bit of CGI that would show the current day in the center of a page with the current week, current month, etc. in progressively smaller boxes around it (actually quite a neat UI if I'd ever gotten it working right). Now that I've got a MacBook with iCal on it, I barely use the calendar at all.

So this is being posted from the new toy. I've logged out of the Linux laptop; I'm still trying to figure out some things, and there's still data to be transferred (like archived mailboxes, for example), but I've got most of what I normally use (web, messaging, mail, music, syncing for PDA) set up.

I thought it would be best for the Macbook to take a photo of itself. I haven't yet named it, but I'm leaning towards "Twong". Those of you who dealt in CB radio in the UK and Ireland in the 80's may recognise this name.

The Air is pretty, but it's got a smaller HD and a slower CPU than the entire MacBook range. I priced Mac + AppleCare + (in the case of the Air) enough hardware (ethernet, Superdrive) + whatever that music software is they're bundling for a coupla hundred, and by the time you've kitted out the Air you may as well be buying a Pro and you've still only got a 13" screen and a 1.8GHz CPU. So, I will not be buying an Air. Repeating what I said on my geek diary for today (or will have said once I run the uploader), at this point I'm leaning towards a regular MacBook because I don't actually need the extra GHz of the Pro, and the difference in screen size is the only thing it comes down to. And my back-of-the-envelope calculation says that the Mac's 13" Widescreen display isn't massively smaller than my current laptop's 14.1" 4:3 display. So now I am in the "thinking about it" phase.

The story of Audion (a Mac MP3 player) is very well written. Specifically, the bit where they get an email from Steve Jobs. Also some nice phrasings like "On the other hand, there would be giant money hats."