Thats interesting????

The last number of days since the keynote the net from this Macs perspective has been kind of odd. Thats from Eire the land of the bannished snakes—

(though you can never banish those b*(&^%%**. they reinvent themselves as virii, trojans, spyware, evil doings.,hosts of these, bin Ladens, subvert/covert litle nasties etc. )

—I thought access to TMO, Apple etc. was a little difficult because of heavy traffic. but maybe something else is at play.

I will check michaelmoore.com. He may know what is going on?

murphies law...

backup is always good... why did they have only one provider??? and this happening @ an offical apple iEverthing event... very embarrasing...:-y

I don't know if it's related but there are a few sites around the net that are down as well. Most notably Live Journal which I believe is hosted in San Francisco.

Maybe just a coincidence though.

I hope that exhibitors put pressure for refunds or future discounts on the organizers. Unfortunately, the trade show ecosystem can getaway with a tremendous amount of shoddy service delivery for a variety of reasons. There is tremendous vendor turnover at these shows. I would bet that (Apple aside), the reason exhibitor participation is down is that the "die-hards" do fewer shows and the exhibitors were a higher mix of newbies this time. It is very easy to sink several thousand into one of these shows and not end up with more than a flag-waving exercise. In fact, I have observed over the years that the bigger the (small) company is that is doing one of these shows, the less likely they are to profit from their presence.

I hate to say it, but these large shows are passée. Smaller co-op shows like the SoCal Mac Faire, or perhaps Apple Store mini-events are a better way for small companies to get product exposure and press flesh.

-Brad Hutchings
Hutchings Software

Stop the Press! Hold the front page! It appears that intenet access can at times suffer from technical problems, it was revealed yesterday at Mac Expo! Prior to this, everbody thought internet access would never go down, but it seems we were wrong!

Seriously, you consider this "news"? Whats next from the intrepid Mac Observer journalists, a groundbreaking expose on how the bus didn't turn up on time!