FACT: I’m really hungry. I eat some apple muffin and have some Bottled Frappuccino�. The keynote has not yet started, but there’s some nice Peter Gabriel music to tide us over.

Okay, 11:55 EST, here we go� The requisite 4 Macs/PCs are on a table on stage for the inevitable speed-tromping tests. Another Mac is on stage, 90 degrees to the audience for Steve’s also-inevitable OS X demo, hopefully for 10.2, but that’s where I end my speculation. Everything from here on out is hard, solid…

Apple Hype Watch� Day 8: “Watch the live webcast in QuickTime.” Personally I think Apple’s gone a little overboard with this whopper of a tagline. I mean, I have some Windoze using friends who can’t seem to figure out how to install QuickTime on their machines (possibly because it requires an “administrator password”), and apparently…

Apple Hype Watch� Day 7: “Just one more sleepless night [for the web team].” Personally, I plan on sleeping until noon. There’s nothing worth getting up for until the keynote anyway. 😛

I’ve got it� It’s a time machine. Yes, for our special Apple Hype Watch� segment, we have decoded Apple’s clues to bring you Monday’s mystery product a full two days early! A time machine is big, time is related to counting (no, not the awful puns in the Count of Monte Christo trailer), it’s beyond…

I’ve just been corrected: This is actually Day 6 of Apple Hype Watch�. Seems I missed one day of hype, and foolishly assumed that it all started on January 1st, even though I saw it with my own eyes on December 31st. Shame on me. In any case, the real list is as follows: Day…

Day 5 of Apple Hype Watch: “Full speed ahead. Lust factor ten.” Okay, so yeah, beyond Sexbots.