{"id":1577,"date":"2010-03-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2010-03-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T12:00:00","slug":"hotsos-2010-day-1-79-friends-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/hotsos-2010-day-1-79-friends-show-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotsos 2010 – Day 1.79 – Friends show up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/em> have gone and told Kevin, but I knew he’d be down imminently 😉<\/p>\n

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 😉<\/p>\n

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 😉<\/p>\n

Not too late to bed and really looking forward to the first day of the conference and my presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hard at work preparing for my presentation yesterday until it got nearer to 5pm and people started coming in on their flights. 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