A rather amazing Leopard Launch !
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Coincidence
A word I do not use too often, but I certainly can use it tonight writing this!
You know those times when you think, blimey, that is a bit spooky? Well, it was also one of those moments! I had gone to the Sheffield Apple Store (UK) for the Leopard Launch and got there way too early (me being keen and excited I guess). Anyway, I had a go on Leopard, as it was already installed on the machines in the store, and it looked and felt great. After a quick coffee and some food I settled down to wait outside the store and luckily enough, I was the first to start queuing. As promised, the store shut at 4pm and some barriers were put outside and a few more people turned up, including Nick and Joey, local students. At this point, everything seemed very normal.
Meeting people is all part of the fun
So, Nick, Joey and I chatted, the queue got a little bigger, and I started using the iPod Touch…… Earlier in the morning, I had been reading my feeds via Google Reader and had picked up on a great story about a student, called Nick Haley, who had created an iPod Touch advert. He had made the advert, uploaded it to YouTube at the beginning of September and it had received some very positive comments. Out of the blue, he had then been contacted by Apple’s ad agency saying they wanted to speak to him about using his clip for the actual advert for the iPod Touch! How cool is that! (it is actually being used and has its first showing on tomorrow). I watched the video on YouTube and also read the article which had appeared on the New York Times website. I had thought, what a superb story, tagged it in Reader and thought no more of it.
You are kidding me, right?!
Thought no more of it until I was using the Touch and mentioned the advert to Nick (alarm bells started ringing yet?!) and Joey. I said how cool it was and had they seen it? It was at this point that Nick smiled, and I asked what was so funny? It was at this point I remembered the article saying it was a guy called Nick from Leeds and I started thinking, surely not ……. I asked if he knew anything about this advert and he proceeded to show me the clip on the iPodTouch via YouTube, and lo and behold, it was posted by a guy called Nick Haley (major alarm bells going off now) and he explained that he was indeed, THE Nick Haley! You can see why I started this post with the word coincidence! Like Whoa! Amazing! These things never seem to happen to me, which is why I was so amazed and really made the whole launch experience even better! Nick was a great guy, extremely humble, could not say too much due to NDAs and a real pleasure to chat with. Here is the man himself outside the Sheffield Apple Store 
I really hope he makes a career of this kind of thing, and I am sure we will be seeing a lot more of him in the future. So, a great experience, and after all that it was also brilliant to go through the doors, snag my Leopard T shirt and actually buy a copy of the nest OS out there! I’ve installed it on the MBP (all good) and am will sort out the MacPro when something arrives next week - tune back in then for my super-duper install strategy!
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