p class=‘bodyText’>After watching Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at Macworld, many Mac media Web sites decided that they were “underwhelmed” by what they saw. “everything we saw, we’ve seen before, months ago at the first Jaguar preview” one said about the new Mac OS as their less than objective reviews downplayed Apple’s announcements. Apple is continuing to innovate in ways that the tech elite takes for granted.

Wanton emotional memories like “we remember the days when the Mac was a platform, not just the product of a single company” just make no sense in today’s economy. It’s a computer, maybe a lifestyle, but it’s not an Orthodox religion. The changes in Apple’s strategy aren’t personally directed at anyone. They’re just trying to make money while pushing new ideas of computing and laying the groundwork for the future of computer experiences.

Short Story–On Sunday, I swam the Dodge Great Chesapeake Bay Swim. It was 4.4 miles of rough, choppy water underneath the Bay Bridge in Annapolis. My time was 2hr56min, which was about 4 minutes faster than my goal time. I was 549 out of 581…doesn’t sound that good except we started with around 650…70 some people dropped out. The winner of the whole thing was something like 1hr 25 minutes…he swam 19 minute miles…whew doggy.

Moby is one of the coolest musicians around.

This article talks about why he’s popular, his embracement of commercialism and a little about his g3 and g4 studio.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/moby.html

Interesting Article on interactive art.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51223,00.html

This is my first Weblog Post (blog from here on out). Hopefully, I’ll be able to come up with some good resources for wireless web and Flash and endurance swimming…maybe even some Mac stuff. That reminds me, I have to add a catgory for Mac.

Did you know that it only costs $1.17 to mail a CD? That’s so cheap.

Week 2 Assignment — Variables & Data Types (PHP CLI)

Title: Hello Variables
Due Date: Sept 3, 2025

Goal

Practice basic PHP variables, concatenation, and simple arithmetic in the command line.

Instructions

Beginner (Full Credit)

Create a file week2.php that:

1. Defines a string variable with your name (e.g., $name = "Alex";).
2. Prints a concatenation of "Hello world, " and your variable.
   • Example output:

     Hello world, Alex
     

3. Defines two number variables (e.g., $a = 7; $b = 5;).
4. Prints the sum of those two numbers.
   • Example output:

     The sum of 7 and 5 is 12
     

Advanced (Optional)

Add one of the following for practice:

This is a very basic update and I wonder if it will work.

Greg Walsh

greg@gregwalsh.com

Education

Doctorate of Philosophy, Information Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
December 2012

Master of Science, Instructional Technology
Bloomsburg University
December 1998

Bachelor of Arts, Mass Communication
Bloomsburg University
May 1997

Published Works

Peer Reviewed Works

Hourcade, J. P., Alper, M., Bonsignore, E., Clegg, T., Fails, J. A., Walsh, G., … & Yip, J. (2023, June). Participatory Approaches to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies for Children. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 795-797).