http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/features/the_flashback_files/ en The Mac Observer Copyright 2009 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:06:49 -0400 http://mint.macobserver.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=features%2Frss%2Fthe_flashback_files&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.macobserver.com%2Ftmo%2Farticle%2Fmy_interview_with_steve_jobs_timeline_2020_redux%2F&seed_title=My+Interview+with+Steve+Jobs+%28Timeline%3A+2020%29+Redux http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/my_interview_with_steve_jobs_timeline_2020_redux/ As I pulled up to the long, curved driveway, I thought about the irony of the date. Hindsight, they say, is 20/20, and I was to do my interview with Steve Jobs on December 20, 2020.  Columns and Opinions, The Flashback Files Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:30:24 -0400 http://mint.macobserver.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=features%2Frss%2Fthe_flashback_files&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.macobserver.com%2Ftmo%2Farticle%2Fwarp_core_july_25_1999_-_the_moppets_take_manhattan%2F&seed_title=Warp+Core%3A+July+25%2C+1999+-+The+Moppets+Take+Manhattan http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/warp_core_july_25_1999_-_the_moppets_take_manhattan/ It was July, 1999 and I had just attended my first Macworld New York as a speaker along with Duane Straub from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. And I was a newbie gawker. Here’s the report I wrote back then — with my first reactions to Manhattan as a Colorado kid. Columns and Opinions, The Flashback Files Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:15:23 -0400 http://mint.macobserver.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=features%2Frss%2Fthe_flashback_files&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.macobserver.com%2Ftmo%2Farticle%2Fmacopinion_june_14_1998_-_dear_mac_i_know_what_you_did%2F&seed_title=MacOpinion%3A+June+14%2C+1998+-+Dear+Mac%2C+I+Know+What+You+Did%26%238230%3B http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/macopinion_june_14_1998_-_dear_mac_i_know_what_you_did/ It was 1998, and our Macs were getting fairly powerful. The PowerMac 8500 on my desk had about the same power as my Silicon Graphics “Indy” UNIX workstation at work. Meanwhile, I had long since migrated away from modems to ISDN, and the speed at which the Mac could spill its guts to a stranger in Brazil was becoming alarming. Here’s how I described the situation in my column: Utopia Planitia. Columns and Opinions, The Flashback Files Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:34:07 -0400 http://mint.macobserver.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=features%2Frss%2Fthe_flashback_files&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.macobserver.com%2Ftmo%2Farticle%2Fmacopinion_october_5_1999%2F&seed_title=MacOpinion%3A+October+5%2C+1999+-+Apple%26%238217%3Bs+Abuse+of+Power+%5BUPDATED%5D http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/macopinion_october_5_1999/ Apple was in the process of 1) crushing a 16 year old Canadian boy and his family over a Domain Name dispute, 2) hiding code in a recommended G3 ROM update that took control of the Mac away from the customer. Here’s how I called it at Macopinion.com in October, 1999. Columns and Opinions, The Flashback Files Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:22:54 -0400