The Awards Banquet here at the MacHack is over, and Rosyna's thing got 5th place. Woo hoo. So we now hold an amazing screw set - one being enormously big (the kind you never would want to screw in somewhere without sufficient machinery) and one small, of course related to the name of the hack - Size Doesn't Matter.

What's notable is that the first place went to the Unstoppable Progress hack I was referring to (the overflowing progress bar), made by Jon and Ben Gotow, is using the Application Enhancer framework. We don't have permission to put it up here, but I think MacAddict is going to put up some of the hacks on their CD.

This is also the last MacHack ever. That's right, the name is being changed. The new name will be the Advanced Developers Hands-On Conference, or AD HOC for short. I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, general public just don't get the name (we got all these hotel people asking us what are we going to hack into now), on the other, the name is such a tradition, it's hard to break. I guess it will always remain the MacHack in our minds and hearts.

The whole thing was pretty good, it was nice to meet many of the people I've known from online only. The only shame is a sore lack of sponsorship on certain places, like late night pizza sessions. I've promised to myself that if we'll be doing well by the next year, we gotta sponsor something, just because this is such a great community.

Thanks to the organizers and all the attendees of the MacHack conference for a kick-ass 3 days of geek goodness. It was great.

As for us, we're heading to San Francisco for the W W D C. I'll try to wave to Steve.