{"id":2157,"date":"2003-09-03T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=571"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:32:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:32:09","slug":"plus-quil-nen-faut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/09\/03\/plus-quil-nen-faut\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus qu&#8217;il n&#8217;en faut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like I&#8217;ll be attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple-expo.com\/\">Apple Expo<\/a> in Paris in two weeks, much to my surprise. The nice folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macmania.com.br\/\">Macmania<\/a> magazine are sponsoring part of the trip. I&#8217;m going with my &#8220;Press&#8221; hat, so expect to see some updates from the press room during the expo.<\/p>\n<p>Time to brush up on my French&#8230; I had 3 years of French in school and actually did quite well, but then English moved in and occupied (it seems) more or less the same neurons. I still can read and pronounce it, and understand about 50% of French movies <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_wink.gif\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been at least 5 or 6 years since my last non-developer Mac-related conference\/expo. I must admit I grew disillusioned with the marketeering aspects of the old MacWorld expos. Let&#8217;s see if the French do it any better. The published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple-expo.com\/uk\/exhibitors\/\">list of exhibitors<\/a> isn&#8217;t all that inspiring, but hopefully Steve Jobs will announce something interesting at the keynote.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the keynote, informed guessers say we&#8217;ll see a new 15&#8243; PowerBook (aluminum), a speed boost for the 12&#8243; and 17&#8243; models, and some music-related stuff: music store for Europe and\/or Windows, and possibly some iPod news.<\/p>\n<p>More later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like I&#8217;ll be attending the Apple Expo in Paris in two weeks, much to my surprise. The nice folks at Macmania magazine are sponsoring part of the trip. I&#8217;m going with my &#8220;Press&#8221; hat, so expect to see some updates from the press room during the expo. Time to brush up on my French&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-travel"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-yN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}