March – April 2007 — Vol 29 No 2
Source
Open PDF • Mar–Apr 2007 • Vol 29 No 2 • 36 pages
Overview
"New Pi Meeting Location is a Success!" (Luther Jackson Middle School working out). Pi Survey Part III in the field.
Articles: Publishing a Travel Blog (Travis Good, 8). The Best of the TCS: Winter 2007 (Bob Jarecke + Richard Rucker, 9). Fingerprints: Why You Care About the iPhone (Lawrence I. Charters, 11). Making the Most of Your Tax Deductions Via the Internet (Dan Wages, 12). Deluged by E-mail, Part II (Jonathan Bernstein, 13). Daylight Saving Time: Is Your Computer Ready? (Pat Fauquet, 15). Sandvox: a Wonderful Way to Create Nice-Looking and Easy-to-Navigate Web Sites (Richard Rucker, 16). Who's Minding the Store? (Bob Jarecke, 18). Our Robot Ate My Apple: DC Robotics (Robert Huttinger, 20). An Evening with Columnist Walt Mossberg (Bob Jarecke, 21).
Club: May Elections (Richard Rucker, 29). President's Page: Short and Sweet (Bob Jarecke, 2). The Pi is Made Up of Mac Lovers (Jarecke, 3). Formal Results of Pi Survey I "It's All About You" (Jarecke, 4). Pi Survey III: The Journal (Jarecke, 4). Pi Photo Contest: Give Us Your Best Shot! (Tom Carlson, 5). January General Meeting Report (Jarecke, 22). Highlights of WAP Board Activities, December 2006-January 2007 (Gabriel Roth Pi Secretary, 30).
Highlights
★ Walt Mossberg Visits Pi
WSJ tech columnist Walt Mossberg — "An Evening with Columnist Walt Mossberg" — major Pi event. Mossberg's local Pi connection goes back to early 1980s (when he wrote for Pi briefly per 1988-02 — V10 N02 context). Iconic Mac-press figure.
★ Travis Good First Byline
Travis Good debuts with "Publishing a Travel Blog" — later prominent in 2009-2016 eJournal era. Track his Pi journey.
★ iPhone Coverage Begins
"Fingerprints: Why You Care About the iPhone" (Lawrence I. Charters) — iPhone announced January 9, 2007 at Macworld SF. Charters writes Pi's first iPhone-anticipation piece, 6 months before launch (June 29, 2007).
Daylight Saving Time Crisis 2007
Energy Policy Act of 2005 shifted DST start from April to March 11, 2007 — huge Mac software-update scramble. Fauquet's how-to.
Sandvox — Richard Rucker
Sandvox website builder (Karelia Software) reviewed — Mac-native WYSIWYG site builder.
DC Robotics — Robert Huttinger
"Our Robot Ate My Apple" — DC Robotics community piece. Maker-culture-adjacent.
Pi Survey I Results Published
Pi Survey I "It's All About You" formal results — strategic-planning data flowing.
Entities
People: Bob Jarecke (President), Richard Rucker, Lawrence I. Charters, Travis Good ★ DEBUT, Dan Wages, Jonathan Bernstein, Pat Fauquet, Robert Huttinger, Walt Mossberg, Tom Carlson, Gabriel Roth (Pi Secretary) Topics: Walt Mossberg Evening, iPhone Anticipation, DST 2007 Crisis, Pi Survey 2006-2007, Pi Photo Contest 2007, Travis Good Debut References: iPhone (announced), Sandvox
Connections to other issues
- ★ Walt Mossberg Evening = WSJ tech-columnist visits Pi; major event
- ★ Travis Good Debut = first byline; Travis Good prominent in 2009-2016 era
- ★ iPhone Anticipation = Pi's first iPhone-context piece (Charters), 6 months before launch
- Pi Photo Contest 2007 = first contest, 2 years before 2009-07 — V31 N04 Supplement