Someone on one of the Podcasts I've been listening to lately mentioned a book written by the creator of folklore.org, Andy Hertzfeld. Revolution In The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made tells the story of the early days at Apple. For many years now Andy as been collecting and publishing on folklore.org numerous anecdotes about the development of Apple's original computer, and the people who created it. As well as from Andy himself these great 'stories' come from characters such as Steve jobs, Steve Wozniak, Burrell Smith, Bud Tribble, Jef Raskin and many more of the amazing people who worked at Apple in the early years. Brought together in this book all these amazing snippets are used to plot the history and tell the story, from the people who were there when it happened, of how the Mac was made. I'm only about half way through so far but am finding it a great book, and recommend it to anyone interested in the Apple or history of technology. Click on the picture of the cover art for more details.

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Not a lot to report this last week, in fact was just looking forward to a quiet rest over the Easter break. It didn't start as planned though. Good Friday saw us awaken to a damaged shed roof, I guess the wind had be hard at work during the night. So that was friday decided, we spent most of the day repairing the roof so that it was fixed in time for the forecasted rain. Not sure what the rest of the Easter break will bring us, but here's wishing you all a great Easter. Oh, and don't eat too much chocolate!!

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More Photographs added this week, this time from Canada. These latest pictures were taken during the SARS outbreak in April/May 2003 which fortunately didn't really effect our visit. Day to day life seemed to be as usual despite the outbreak and everyone we met were very open and friendly, they could chat and wanted to for hours! The trip got us thinking that may be we'd like to move out and live in Canada later in our lives if we had the opportunity. It really is a great way of life and as I mentioned above the locals are great. Most of the photographs with exception of the tram were taken of the Niagara Falls and town. The tram was taken in downtown Toronto on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Click here to watch the slideshow now.

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As promised I'm continuing to sort through my many photographs taken over the years, and once in order post as online photo albums here on my site for anyone to see and comment on. My latest album posted earlier today consists of pictures taken whilst on holiday in the Maldives November 2003. We visited the Island of Meeru which is situated in the same Atoll as Male. We had hoped to, and had booked to visit Meeru again in January 2005 but unfortunately the Tsunami Disaster prevented this. We will definitely be visiting the Maldives again, to me it is one of if not my favourite holiday destination so far.

To view my photographs from the Maldives click here.

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That's right today, April Fools Day, is Apple's 30th Birthday. Started in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Apple as fought through rough times to continue to bring us, in my view, the best Personal Computer to date. Congratulations!!

I was hoping that there would be some announcement of some great new product, like a full screen iPod Video, or new Intel iBook, but it's now looking like we are going to have to wait until later in the year. The other rumor roaming the blogs which I was also hoping was true was that Apple would announce major discounts for today only when buying a new Apple product from any of their stores. My car keys and credit card were on stand by for a quick trip to our local Apple Store in Meadowhall for new laptop :).

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