First Night Over
Well, I'm in bed writing this before I got to sleep. After the afternoon talks were over I went down to the machine room with Thom, meeting Matthew Garret (of Dasher fame) en route, and hung around there for a while, finding Edd Dumbill and heckling Jeff and Glynn as they totally failed to make a "It Just Works" MacOS X laptop talk to a projector and play a QuickTime movie.
After a quick change, we tried to go Out On The Town. Unfortunately my current account is seriously overdrawn (oh bugger) and none of the machines would accept my credit card. This is not funny. I have to survive a week until I get paid on no money for some reason (probably too much shopping), but I can't even use my credit cards here!
In the end we found a really good pizzeria, where I had the best pizza I've had since Rome (Le Chef, peppers, pepperoni, onion and cheese I believe). Afterwards a quick call to my better half as they say, and a pint (or three) of Guiness in a local pub. Now this is service -- I go to the bar and ask for three pints and a whiskey, he tells me to sit back down and he will bring them too me. Excellent. I must educate my local pub in this habit.
Tomorrow's talks look on the whole better than todays -- Thomas's GStreamer talk was excellent, but Soren's Performance talk needed more practise and over-ran quite a lot. At the very least, tomorrow Thom and myself can heckle Edd as he gives his Bluetooth talk...
People still to see: andersca, alex, ninja, telsa walters, oskuro and docpi. I'm sure you are out there, find me! :)
Last not least, congratulations to Glynn Foster for arranging a great conference. It may have been absolute hell to arrange, but it appears to be going well. Nice work. Now can I have one of those flashing Sun pens?
Things I Miss (in accending order):
- A book to read in bed/on the toilet/anywhere else I fancy reading.
- Vicky.
