Hard at work preparing for my presentation yesterday until it got nearer to 5pm and people started coming in on their flights. First up was Kevin Closson, who looked a somewhat sad sight (by his usual standards), clutching a bag from a PC store containing what he hoped would be the crucial bit of software that would help him solve his over-written MBR. I waited for him in the bar and discovered Mark Bobac had Ubuntu Live on a USB stick. I suppose I could have gone and told Kevin, but I knew he’d be down imminently 😉
It was also a brilliant experience to bump into Paul Matuszyk again, who I worked with briefly 4 years ago at Sky. This is his first conference, largely inspired by a set of Symposium 2006 notes I gave him and my encouragement so it was a) great to see him again and b) pleasing when I saw him coming out of Richard Foote’s presentation, blown away by how good it was. I think he’s already decided it was a good decision 😉
Then it was the usual suspects, the usual drinking and some chat with KC, who always has smart stuff to say. In amongst that, I liked him pointing out that my new iCore 7 laptop is probably what they used to euphemistically call a ‘Portable’ computer. He’s not wrong there 😉
Not too late to bed and really looking forward to the first day of the conference and my presentation.