It was a beautiful, sunny day when my tiBook, the first generation arrived. It was exciting, Apple were building decent hardware again, MacOS X was on its way.

I unpacked it, plugged it in, and set up my Ricochet Modem.

A few hours later, the battery was charged and I left my office on Kingswell Avenue and walked down to the Ellis House, which was the closest bit of open, public lawn I could find.. I wanted to do 'that thing', surf the Internet in a random location outside in the realworld.

The Ellis House provided the perfect location. I sat there on the lawn, ssh'ed into my server back in the office, kind of astounded. "This is the future, and I'm experiencing it at the Bladerunner House, lol", I thought to myself.

I sent my girlfriend an ICQ message to join me, and bring a DVD for us to watch, maybe a small picnic too. She arrived a few minutes later and we watched the Final Fantasy movie on DVD, on my laptop, sitting on the Ellis House lawn, as the sun went down.

It was a classic moment I'll never forget.