Ben @ WWDC 2007

On Thursday 14th, the WWDC Bash was held in the Yerba Buena Gardens. Good food, good drink and good music from Ozomatli – overall a good time.

An array.

No, I don’t understand it either.

RAAAAAARR!!!

On Tuesday night, a group of us went to AT&T Park to watch the San Francisco Giants play host to the Toronto Blue Jays. The home team won the game 3-2. Read all about it.

This is a highly coveted accessory for use only by ME!

A 5am start and we still ended up halfway from the front! But it was all worth the wait – great keynote, a real buzz inside, with some neat audio-visual things happening on the big screens.

On Sunday 10th June, a group of us visited the Apple Company Store in Cupertino, California. It was a major geek-fest, with two carloads of us travelling the 40-odd miles (64km) down Highway 101 from San Francisco to Apple, Inc. Headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino.Without the organisation of Andrew Jeffrey from the Apple University Consortium we would have had to bus it down there. Thanks Andrew!

1 Infinite Loop	Cool halo effect around the sun
Company Store Retail	Apple Headquarters Street Sign
1 Infinite Loop	Company Store Retail
Street Sign on the way out of Cupertino, towards San Francisco

A 7 hour walk of San Francisco in the scorching sun, and with nothing in my stomach except for a bran muffin, I took these photos (among many more):

Stars and Stripes	Prevent Runaways
Abandoned Cap	Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
Golden Gate Bridge from Crissey Field
Golden Gate Bridge from Crissey Field	Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge	Golden Gate Bridge Crisis Counselling Phone
Golden Gate Bridge	Alcatraz Island
Golden Gate Bridge

Say hello to Mr Rooter, with his knowing wink ;)

These are some shots within the Apple Store in San Francisco.

Apple Store Facade	Glass staircase at Apple Store
Glass staircase at Apple Store

This is a photo of Union Square in San Francisco, with a huge Apple iPod billboard looming above. There are many such iPod billboards in San Francisco, which is kind of preaching to the converted in this city!

Out of the shot, Macy’s is to the right, and Saks Fifth Avenue to the left.

After the long flight and the lack of food from Air New Zealand, off we went in search of something decent to eat. And we found it at The Toaster Oven. Think of it as a classier Subway.

On Tuesday night, I attended a meet-and-greet dinner organised by Stephen Young, AUDF Coordinator for The University of Melbourne. The dinner was at the Prince Alfred Hotel in Carlton.

Some snaps from the dinner:

Entry to WWDC is with an E-ticket, redeemable at registration prior to the conference. Here’s what it looks like in the Apple Developer Connection website: