Engadget is live-blogging Steve Jobs' keynote at Macworld 2006. Hard to resist to continuous reloading of the page just to search for the word "Intel" inside the text! :-) Update: here's the announcement: first Intel-based Mac will be the iMac, dual core processor, rated 3.2x faster on integers and 2.1x faster on floats than current iMac. Then there's a new generation of Powerbooks and the name is not Powerbook anymore but MacBook Pro, between 4-5x faster than current powerbook (which makes it 8-9x faster than my current Powerbook, woooooooo I want one!), price in the $2000-2500 range, shipping in February! Update2: Apple's site is updated, all info about the Mac Book Pro here. 
Alex Barnett is a little sad today: "I will only get to 'visit' a tiny, tiny fraction of the total web in my entire lifetime. The rest of it will be unvisited by me and unkown to me. I don't know why, but this hard reality made me a little sad". No reason to be sad, you won't visit the whole web just like you won't meet everybody in the world. The value of the web, and the beauty of it, is that it makes locations and distances almost unrelevant. The rules of ordinary life (selecting your interesets, creating your social network, producing and consuming information) will always apply, only made more powerful and often easier. Would we, me and you Alex, ever know about each other and talk without the web? Take the advantages of the web and be happy with them, don't ask the web for everything. We're still humans living in a world of humans. Thankfully.
If Alex cries Matt doesn't laugh. The story of his weblog disappearing from Google's search result is no surprise, honestly. And I don't think it will come back, sorry Matt. My weblog used to be the first hit on Google for "cristian", along with some other bloggers down the list. Now I'm not there anymore, even on the first page. Not that my blog pages have disappeared completely but seems that the weight that is given to weblogs (at least some of them) is progressively going down. Sounds like a countermeasure to the excessive boost on pagerank coming from the bloggers' over-average linking habit. As a proof of it, all the other Cristians that used to be in the top ten and that are not bloggers are still there and I seem to rule now as "cristian" on Google's blogsearch.
