Unlike other conferences I’ve been to, they seem to have a lot of keynotes. Strikes me as a little odd. The only real person who do a “true” keynote would be O’Reilly, since he coined this term in the first place. He did that yesterday, and didn’t really say anything different (at least from what I’ve read).
Debated between this one and learnings from Twitter. Felt that maybe this one might be more … insightful. Gotta learn to stop listening to my gut instinct.
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Room is huge and darn near packed. I get the feeling this is gonna be a good one. I think I’m going to have to type quickly for this one.
Last session before lunch. Freaking hungry (no boiled eggs at breakie this morning). Might take off a bit early to get a jump on lunch and battery charging.
Oy. I can’t seem to get a decent connection to anything anymore. Too many people with wireless connections. They’ve got big-ass routers, but it ain’t helping. Gonna stay offline for reliability.
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And the fun continues. Another morning at the conference, and another day of hard-core typing. I’m also up on Twitter now (le sigh), so you can get some notes as I go along.
Well, wasn’t much of a “crawl”, at least for me. Met up with Jim at the Expo hall, about 20 minutes before they closed the floor. (What’s with closing the Expo hall at 4, anyway?) Skipped the keynote.
Sigh. I gave in. Communicating at this conference seems to require it.
Just in case you’re following the threads from Web 2.0 Expo, they’re gonna be a little delayed today, folks.
First of all, I had my Firefox suddenly kak out and took all my notes from the first session with it. Furious typing in TextPad has restored many of them, but the fine details are largely gone. Sorry about that.
Also, the net connections here are way underpowered given the number of people connected at any minute. At least 80% of attendees have a laptop, iPhone, or other wireless device and are bringing the connections to mere blubbering masses of hardware. (And they’ve got the big ones here, too.) I also think the main pipe is about three times too small. Hence why the Flickr feed ain’t got much in it right now.
Also, my camera battery is about dead. Not sure how that happened — it was fine when I got up this morning. Probably all that wireless connectivity time (most it failing to connect) killed it. I’ll post pix when I get back to the hotel at lunch.
In the few minutes I have before I dive back into another conference session, figured I’d cover some of the items of our last vacation. This was a 2.5 week excursion mostly to Scotland, with a few days in England. Alex planned most of the trip, with me handling things like the transportation and hotels to stay along the way. Overall, about a 50/50 split on the events et al.
Sadly, at the end, it wasn’t a usual vacation. Until now, it’s always been either just me, or myself and Alex. Now there’s three of us, and the Wee One doesn’t have our stamina for travel and has a pseudo-schedule that needs to be followed from time-to-time.