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Apple Madness.

I stopped by the new Apple Store in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, its opening day. Total madness: The place was packed with people, every single product on display had someone playing with it, plus two or three people waiting in line to take a look, and lots of folks were just milling around. Some nice touches--a low table with about 8 iMacs on it, and toddlers (with parents) happily playing kiddie games--but overall it looked just like any other Apple store, except bigger, and more architectural plexiglas. iPods and iPod Minis were flying out the door. I bought nothing: all too expensive.

Note: the store is not "just off Union Square." It is actually just off Market Street, just across from the big Virgin Megastore. But that sounds so much less posh.

Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

The legions of Cheetos-eating Linux geeks won't be too happy when they see this review of the Ingineo Eyetop.

Mobile PC on CNN Live.

I'll be appearing on CNN Live this coming Saturday, 2/28, at around 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific. Tune in and check out some of the coolest new portable gadgets from the Mobile PC labs: a Microsoft SPOT watch, a couple of cutting-edge handhelds, and a superlight Sony Vaio, and more. Plus yours truly, live via satellite from San Francisco.

Inside Windows.

I don't know why I find this so fascinating, but I do. This page shows the results of running grep (a Unix search function) on the Windows 2000 source code. It's like peeking inside the sausage factory: you get to see the workers chopping meat, spitting, swearing, mixing bugs into the meal, and not cleaning up after themselves. Nevermind security risks: This hints at a gigantic, sloppy, sprawling mess of code filled with debris and cruft. To be fair, every mature operating system's code probably looks this way. But it's fascinating to get a glimpse.

Email to SMS.

This is handy: Teleflip lets you send email to any SMS-enabled mobile phone without knowing anything but the phone number: (your number here)@teleflip.com.

The alternative is to first figure out the phone's email address.