In Memoriam amalthea

Rummaging around in my "Pictures" folder, I found this photo today:

Last known photo of my trusty old iBook, nicknamed "amalthea". Photo taken by Daniel Schmid at the Webmontag in Stuttgart on March 1, 2010 - 7 weeks before I lost it ...

And then I just came across this sentence on Wikipedia:

The precise dimensions of Himalia are still not certain and it may be marginally larger or smaller in mean radius than Amalthea

"Himalia" being the name that I gave to my new iPad, which is intended to fill the gap left by "amalthea". I swear I didn't read that article before deciding on the name. Coincidences ...

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[...] presentation. There's certainly enough space on there to do that. Heck, it has the exact same resolution as my old iBook and Keynote for the Mac would even let me stick a watch on there (in addition to the slides). The ability to remotely [...] [read more]
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