Good Morning Internet

I over­heard this while I was out for lunch a few days ago. I’m cer­tain he wasn’t jok­ing. And I felt bad for him.

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Maybe it was bet­ter when I wasn’t draw­ing because this is the kind of non­sense I come up with.

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Today, the 3G ver­sion of Apple’s iPad ships to cus­tomers who pre-ordered, and it goes on sale at Apple Store loca­tions after 5:00 pm.

This is the one I’ve been wait­ing for. Over the past year, I’ve been stuck in air­ports and hotels with costly wi-fi, snowed in while a bliz­zard knocked out my Inter­net, and in the mid­dle of more than a few really great writ­ing ses­sions when my laptop’s bat­tery died. In addi­tion to all the really cool stuff the iPad can do, I’m really look­ing for­ward to using it as my pri­mary writ­ing tool.

What about you? Are you rush­ing out to buy an iPad 3G this week­end? Do you already have the wi-fi-only ver­sion? Are you skip­ping out on the whole iPad thing altogether?

Per­son­ally, it’ll be a few more weeks before the ol’ bank account is charged up enough to wel­come an iPad into my home. But I’m pretty sure I’ll get my money’s worth out of it.

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I did it! I took a sun­rise photo five days a week for all of April! As I teased yes­ter­day, I’ll be tak­ing pho­tos at a wider angle in May. I tested out the new angle this morn­ing and, boy howdy, it looks good. Tune in Mon­day for an all-new month of sun­rises over Baltimore!

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This morn­ing, Steve Jobs posted a piece on Apple’s web­site called “Thoughts on Flash”. He closes the piece with what might be my new favorite Steve Jobs quote ever.

Per­haps Adobe should focus more on cre­at­ing great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on crit­i­ciz­ing Apple for leav­ing the past behind.

Burn! In all my years as a web devel­oper, I was never a fan of Flash and avoided using it. I always believed Flash was severely overused and mis­used on the web, espe­cially by bands, movie stu­dios, and (for some rea­son) restau­rants. For me, the devel­op­ment and refine­ment of HTML5 web stan­dards has been an excit­ing process to follow.

Lots of con­sumers are up in arms because the iPhone and iPad don’t sup­port Flash. When­ever peo­ple tell me that lack of Flash sup­port is a deal-breaker, I ask why. Mostly, the response I get is a shrug. The odd per­son will men­tion a spe­cific Flash-based site they use from time to time. More and more, peo­ple are sur­prised to find that a lot of these sites have per­fectly func­tional standards-based alter­na­tives avail­able for non-Flash users.

Essen­tially, it’s a big deal because peo­ple gen­er­ally don’t under­stand that it’s not a big deal. They hear some mis­in­formed tech pun­dits on morn­ing news pro­grams scream­ing, “The iPad’s great and all, but it doesn’t have Flash! It’s use­less!” This isn’t about Apple edg­ing out an Adobe prod­uct. It’s not about a watered-down Inter­net expe­ri­ence. It’s about Apple embrac­ing the future, adopt­ing (and con­tribut­ing to) the stream­lined stan­dards of the future, and cut­ting out the dead weight.

What are we learn­ing from this dras­tic mea­sure? The web doesn’t need Flash. It’s as sim­ple as that.

It’s been upset­ting to see how Adobe has strayed from the pack in a non-innovative way. Each new ver­sion of Cre­ative Suite, while pow­er­ful and essen­tial to most cre­ative indus­tries, feels less and less Mac-like when run­ning on a Mac. It’s not exactly Windows-like either, but more like step­ping into another world where things are clunky in their own, Adobe-specific way.

I’ve won­dered for years why Adobe hasn’t poured more energy into cre­at­ing the mother of all standards-complient web devel­op­ment and design suites. Instead, with each new Cre­ative Suite, it seems like they’re clue­less about the tools that will power the web of the future.

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Much like Tues­day night’s Lost episode, this morning’s sun­rise is a re-run. It’s almost exactly the same cloud­less sky we had yes­ter­day morn­ing. Sure, I’m as big a fan of clear weather as the next sun­rise reviewer, but it’s the clouds and atmos­pheric anom­alies that make sun­rises inter­est­ing. This kind of sun­rise, while promis­ing a nice day, makes me wish I had hit the snooze bar instead of lean­ing out my win­dow with my cam­era at 6:10 am. As the sun­rises get ear­lier and ear­lier, they’d bet­ter become increas­ingly more worth it as we head into summer.

As a side note, I’ll start tak­ing sun­rise pho­tos at a wider angle next month. While that tele­phone pole and TV antenna really tie the photo together, the sun is mov­ing steadily out of frame. Trust me. I’ve got a whole new cam­era angle that I’m ready to debut on May 3, and it’s going to knock your socks off.

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Not a cloud in the sky.

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It’s another gray morn­ing in Bal­ti­more. Though the sun didn’t show up today or yes­ter­day morn­ing, these pho­tos were both taken at the exact moments the sun would have appeared.

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Happy Fri­day, tweethearts!

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