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We are not talking W.W. D.C. today. The keynotes in just a few hours. Why talk about what we might hear

when we're about to hear it? Instead, we'll talk tomorrow about what we heard. I do have a question though. Are you like me a bit jealous of the people

gathered in San Jose for W. W. D.C? Well today I want to bring you news of another sort of Mac gathering.

If you're in or around the Chicago area or if you can put it on your travel plans for later this summer.

Macstock is a thing about which you should know.

Every summer, a growing number of Mac enthusiasts

gets together outside of Chicago to eat, drink, be merry, all drawn together by their love of the Mac.

Here today to tell us more about it and how you can be part of it as a long-time friend of mine and of this show,

Mr. Berry Fulk.

So we are talking on the opening day of W. W. D.C. which for people who've never tried or for people who have exceedingly difficult to get into,

plus it's really for developers. I mean there is a social angle to it obviously but the event itself is for developers.

You go the other way and Macworld doesn't exist anymore and that leaves a void is max stock sort of like does it fill

that void or is it meant to it really is meant to have filled that void within a couple areas and that is if you want to

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