Alan Irwin’s Blog

Well, here they are. The before and after pictures (please excuse the hairy back).
After much discussion and waffling, the big event occurred just minutes ago. The hair is gone (sort of - I kept the pony tail!), and I feel great. It was quick and easy, and yes I like it.
Harriet is still adapting to [...]

MacWorld is probably the coolest of the geeky events I’ve attended so far this year. Harriet and I spent a day and a half (January 17 and 18) checking out how the (for me) other half (8% more precisely) lives.
We’re a mixed family: Harriet is an Apple disciple and I’m a member of the PC [...]

This was the last day of symposium, and I don’t really have many photos to throw at you all. This shot is of Alain Mailland demonstrating how he creates one of his amazing pod-like pieces.
On this final day, I bought a few more things at the trade show. During the symposium, a large conference [...]

This picture is from the banquet that took place this evening. I’ve had some wonderful meals in Portland (that would would probably earn me a tsk or two from Mikki), but the banquet meal was not one of them. Your basic chicken with starchy mashed potatoes and asparagus, and a salad that was probably sitting [...]

This is from the Opening Ceremonies of the AAW’s 2007 Symposium. They announced that over 1600 people are registered for this event, making it the “second largest of its kind” (whatever that means). I think that you can see from this picture that the vast majority of members are: white, male, and over 50 (hey, [...]