It started with a couple of days spent loading NeXTSTEP 3.3 into VirtualPC. Then I moved on to setting up my Turbo NeXT Dimension Cube. While rummaging through the barn looking for black hardware parts, I happened upon my HP pizza box, which I bought in 1996 for OpenStep RISC. Finally, I topped it off by loading OS X Server 1.1 on a Blue and White G3 tower. The last one proved tricky: the internal 10GB drive was giving the installer some problems so I had to bust a 2 GB IDE drive out of a dead Sony PC. I want to run OpenStep 4.2 as well, but I can't decide if I want to run it on the Cube or in VirtualPC session. The purpose of all this is simple: to research and review the evolution of the NeXTSTEP programming environment that lead up to Cocoa. Tonight I sat back and went through the MiscKit examples on the Cube...

Dropped into SIGGRAPH to check out the exhibit hall. Thought it was only proper since the show doesn't come to yer home town every year. I found myself non-plussed. However, it appears to me that the 3D killer app are the '3D Printers' that can mill objects from 3D models. I saw a Roland model several years ago, but at this show there were at least 5 vendors selling these devices.