Boston is cold and gloomy with no need for sunglasses here in the winter. Besides that, nothing is open on Sunday night. I've asked for directions a couple of times, trying to find my way around the subway, etc. I've noticed, that for the most part, nobody knows how to get anywhere. I could tell that a few people really did know, but didn't want to take the time to explain it. Nice. New York was friendlier in this respect.
First thing, Terminal C didn't have an ATM. I go to the subway terminal - no ATM. I go back to the airport, and finally find an ATM in the B terminal - all of this takes about an hour. The subway token machine doesn't take bills larger than $10's but the ATM gave only 20's - fortunately there was someone at the kiosk. Secondly, hotel rates are outrageous here, I managed to get a nice place cheaper than the hotel the conference was being hosted at, both hotels are old, and while nice, I can hardly justify the cost. My observation is that Boston isn't anywhere near as affordable as Seattle, where I found a room for $50 a night - viva The Kings Inn.
Morning Walk
Light to medium foot traffic with long lines at the local Starbuck's.
Apple Tiger Code Talk Boston 2004
I'm under NDA, so there won't be any specific details. My overall impression is favorable. These events are free to students, and I highly recommend going to them if your interested in learning something about Apple's platform. The best session for me was on using
Shark. BTW
It's 4:45pm and it is dark outside. *grin* Beautiful.
Turing Machine Compiler Update
Also made some updates to the
Turing Machine Compiler. I expanded the functionality to support file I/O using a buffered reader, and corrected the bugs for the command line input method. I probably won't touch it again for some time, but when I do, I'll either add a flag to run the machine as an LBA or add support for multiple internal tapes.
