i do not have a 3g iphone

i don't have an iphone, but i'm not really all that upset about it. i went down to the apple store on a whim this morning to see if the line looked doable, and it was long, but not that long. so, i waited for a bit.

what surprised me was that despite all the hype, despite all the preparation, the line was slow. it was really slow. in an hour and a half, the line moved twice. i was really disappointed in that. i would have thought that they'd be a bit more efficient than that.

anyway, i'm patient. i'll wait a few days until they get a little better at getting people through the stores.

update

apparently there's an activation issue that's causing things to be so slow. so, i can't blame the retail people anymore, but some software engineer in cupertino is fearing for his life (or at least his livelihood) right now...

building protocol buffers with maven

i set up the maven build for protocol buffers and it looks like ted is not happy with my work. :-( seriously though, i wish he had a comments section so i could get a bit more detail about whether his gripe is with how protocol buffers are built or with maven itself. if he's unhappy with maven, +1 to that. (yes, i get annoyed with it too.) otherwise, i'd love to get some feedback on how to improve the build from both ted an everyone else.

no idea what i'm talking about? check out protobuf.