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I'm Aleksandar Vacić, professional web developer and wine maker in the making.
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I'm Aleksandar Vacić, professional web developer and wine maker in the making.
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The store was chock full and the queue was running around the store. On the entrance you got Leopard themed t-shirts. Rather lame (I don’t like this supernova X design) and only in one size, which is M; it looks like british people are mostly thin. Who would’ve known…
It was interesting watching it all. People were in rather long queues in front of the registers, even though arriving tomorrow will give you probably no waiting at all. Lots of people were buying Macs, some even going with two or three. The workshop at the top was fully seated plus some people standing (first time I saw that in this store).
A testimony for the iPod brand strength is that there was queue for buying iPods too – lots of those in queues were taking home various side-buys apart from Macs and Leopard.
For the fun, I asked one of the guys running around (fetching stuff that people bought) can I buy a MacBook Pro with custom hard disk. I expected sorry, please come in tomorrow
but he actually said sure, although it might take up to an hour
. Well, what can you say – just great.
There were some people in Apple shirts that did not do any selling, mostly speaking with people. Some had rather hard-to-miss outfits. ;)
Take a look at assorted photos I took last evening – I hope they catch the atmosphere.
Continue reading Leopard launch at Apple Store in Regent Street, London
This is an overdue post. Way overdue. I want to do too much things at the same time and usually don’t finish any, on time. Need to chill out a bit.
After quite a bit of fuss to get the visas (getting them from Serbia is getting more and more difficult) Ana and I went to our honeyweek. :) Chosen destination: Paris, France.
My first option was to drive-through Central Europe, visiting Budapest, Prague and Vienna, staying in each for few days and then getting back to Serbia. However, given the fact that Ana was close to 7th month of pregnancy (I’m in for the most interesting and exciting summer of my life ;)) at the time of travel, we changed it to just one city.
I tend to write extended posts whenever I travel, both to help other visitors and to have a reference for myself, during possible future visit. Michael’s post and the comments in it were very helpful – I hope this post will prove just as useful.
Continue reading Paris, France
I’ve been to London quite a bit, on various business trips. I visited almost all of the museums, palaces and similar places to see, but never went to a theatre. I passed endless ads for musicals and shows getting on and off the Tube, but never really made up my mind to go. I’m not a theatre fan. What made me finally go was probably the fact that I’m huge Lord of the Rings fan. I have seen the movies probably 30 times each, so you can imagine. :)
Don’t worry, there wan’t be any spoilers in this post
LotR is put on stage at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, a theatre with a very colorful and rich history spanning 4 centuries. It’s located just off the Covent Garden, on Catherine St. A lovely building and a huge auditorium inside. I purchased my ticket over a phone just 3h prior to 19:30 show. It was a ticket for the balcony. Having been only to Serbian theathres, I would describe this “balcony” more like one story over the roof. The stage is clearly visible and sound and speech are perfectly carried up, but it’s impossible to see the faces. Even with looking glass which cost 50p to pickup and use.
If you go, buy your self a lower seat (30+ pounds). Continue reading The Lord of the Rings — on stage
I’m already in London, strollling a bit while awaiting @media 2007 to start on Thursday.
I’m at the Thistle city Barbican hotel, thus if you are attending the conference and staying there, let me know so we can have a few drinks.
My brother Damir is coming from Sweden and I’m certain the conference would be a great experience. I’m really looking forward to meet more people.
I started writing this post few months ago, when I switched from desktop computer to notebook/laptop (whatever you wish to call it). I used notebooks from time to time, but this time I’m going full…monty would that be applicable in this case? My old desktop – AthlonXP 2500+, 1GB RAM, SATA RAID0 7200rpm disks, Radeon9800 – is packed and awaits new owner.
This was far from easy decision to make and I thought about it for a very long time. Eventually, I decided that much higher cost of buying powerful laptop vs powerful desktop will be justified with increased versatility and freedom of movement. The laptop was bought in UK and it proved to be a real eye-opener regarding business practice of some of the IT shops in London. A fishy practice.
Continue reading Mobilized
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