I'm trying to book a hotel for SXSW and I see that the Hampton Inn is available to Gold, Interactive, and Film registrants. I know Andy had told me that it was sold out so I'm feeling great (someone must have dropped out!) Not believing my luck, I give Andy a call to double-check that it's the same hotel then hastily hang up to finish my order before someone else gets it.

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OK, so the cat's out of the bag: there's a new MacBook in town. The MacBook Air is light, it's got a multi-touch trackpad and a full-size backlit keyboard.

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(This is a little diary I'm keeping while watching the liveblogging of the MacWorld keynote on several sites. It's liveblogging the liveblogging! This isn't an objective word-for-word transcript, it's littered with my own initial reactions. Apologies also if anything gets lost or mangled in this game of Chinese whispers.)

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You guys are great! Ninety sites have the Singularity badge on them and the number is growing every day. I couldn't be happier and yet it also means that I now have ninety emails that I need to reply to. While I've started to answer each one personally in turn, what I really need is the ability to respond to all the emails with a single message to say "Hey, I got your email, thanks. You'll be among the first to know what Singularity is in the next few days!"

I've been tagging messages with the label "Singularity Badges" in GMail as the emails were coming in (note to self: next time, also reply to the message at this point and they won't pile up!) So I thought I'd fire up Mail app, select all the messages with the label, hit Reply and Bob's your uncle.

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