Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Sun, 26 Sep 2004

Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara

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Power Users and Developers — and Mac Music Heads — should come to the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara, CA on October 25th to 28th.

I'll be there again this year. I'm not talking technical this year (since I've been doing more Java than Cocoa for the last few months); instead, I'm on a panel called How to Run Your Own Software Business along with four notable developers. We will be exploring a broad range of topics in this expanded, ninety-minute session. What I contribute will be based upon my personal experiences building Watson and starting Karelia, dealing with suitors for an acquisition, and re-building a company and new product afterwards. No promises, but I might have some more hints about the new product that Terrence Talbot and I are working on, depending on our progress between now and then.

It looks like the conference will be really cool this year. Stewart Copeland will be there. Maybe I'll get to meet him, or at least be in the same room with him. Lots of "Cocoa Craftsmen" will be there. There will be some previews of Tiger. Lots of stuff about Music. What more could you ask for?

Of note is the hefty discount that they have made for Apple Developer Connection members (Hey, isn't it free to become an ADC member at the "online" level?) and employees of Apple Computer. Derrick Story has the scoop.

If you will be at the conference, please stop me and say "hi"!

A Trip to Reno, Nevada

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I took a quick trip from California to Nevada yesterday to help identify and persuade potential voters who want to take their country back. What a blast! Four of us drove up from the San Francisco Bay Area — from a state whose electoral votes are all but a given — to Nevada, a state with only five electoral votes that could go either way. So Nevada is turning into quite the political battleground — in fact, it's apparently so close that it's now tied for the #1 contested state in the country. It could be 2004's Florida, so to speak. So the state is filling up with volunteers from both sides (unfortunately) of the political divide.

If any of you readers of this weblog are in California and you want to actually make a difference in the election — and to paraphrase Moby, not to wake up on November 3 and regret that you didn't do enough — this is something you can do that will have significant impact. Nevada needs ground troups. If you want to know how to get involved, contact me and I'll be glad to help you get set up. (They especially need help the weekend before Election Day; there's also a couple of big events in Reno next weekend and on October 13th.)

If you're outside the area but you still want to help, money talks of course.

(And of course, if there are readers of this weblog that like enjoy what our current President has done for our country and are offended by this post, feel free to move along to the next article.)