So I'm sitting in a hotel in Taiwan, right... in Taipei. It's 7pm and they tell me that a bus will come at 7.30pm to take this bunch of us 50 Indians to Chiang Kai Shek Intl. Airport. That will actually be very nice because there's free and extremely high-speed Wirleess Internet at CKSIA, unlike this hotel where I was told I'd have to pay $4/hour to get access. Of course, I'm in the computer room and luckily for me, somebody left this computer logged on as root, so I'm surfing for free as usual. Taiwan is one of those places where you find those Butterfly Freeways and so you can call it relatively well-developed. Everything's in Chinese though (I think it's Mandarin but I'm not sure) and... I dunno... I'm sorta not having fun here. I want to be back at college.

Unfortunately, the Macworld Keynote will take place while I'm on an airplane and so I'll have to watch the replay once I get back to The Dorm.

Uptil here was the part of the entry I wrote while I was in Taipei on the 10th of January. The rest is what I added on the 14th.

Now I wouldn't really want to set an exact line that you cross when you change from Mac aficionado to Mac fanatic, but if I did have to set one under some kind of duress, it would probably be "when you start having dreams involving Macworld keynotes". While I was in Taipei, I had one of those. This guy comes on stage, name of S. Jobs, wearing a blue jeans and black shirt, pulling up his pants all the time because, for the nth time, he's forgotten to wear a belt. Now, if dreams were mundane, they would be quite annoying because it would be like 'not' sleeping. Anyhow, that didn't seem to be much of a trouble at the moment because my dreams are known to be anything but normal and this one was no exception. In this fictitious keynote, Mr. Jobs announces a PowerBook G5. The dream then promptly fades out. Now, as far as the entry's title is concerned, this is all there is to it. Of course, this was just an indication of how much my subconscious really wanted a new Pro notebook from Apple, and as Apple's MacBook Pro website claims...

Also, on a side note, I did finally try out an In-flight Internet Service. First of all, it seems that it's run by the airplane manufacturer and not the airline, because it seemed to be coming from Boeing's Connexion service. I did a bandwidth test (something I do very often these days) and got 128Kbps with the Beeline Bandwidth Test. As for practical usage, I was able to watch streaming video from news.com. As for cost, it cost me $10 for the first hour (after that, it depends on what kind of 'plan' you choose). Definitely quite expensive; however, I just wanted to try this out purely for its sake. I was assigned an IP in the 216.x.x.x range and the originating city was Seattle, WA (in other words, Boeing Headquarters).

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