Category: Work
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Conference Wind-Down
IDF is coming to a close. I’m just hanging out in San Jose till my Friday AM flight. Today’s plan … ride the Segway, see Bill Shatner, have a nice dinner, steal bandwidth from the convention floor. Detailed trip updates coming soon …
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Murphy 1, Brian 0
So my first lab presentation went well … there weren’t any fires or locusts, nobody died, and Jerry and I didn’t get lynched. We had most every type of technical issue known to man, but nobody died … so call it a good session. [sigh] Murphy and I have a rematch after lunch. Let’s hope…
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Leavin’ on a jet plane
Back in San Jose … yet another computer convention. Almost the same audience as Dragon*Con, but better dressed. Actually, more people go to Dragon*Con … but I am getting paid for this. Stay tuned for information on IDF, pictures of the nasty carpet in the Phoenix airport and why I don’t post everything in my…
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And now for something completely different … no wait, this is exactly the same!
Yes, this post is being made early in the morning for me. I don’t usually contemplate rising from bed before 7:00AM most mornings. I actually got to sleep at a reasonable hour for the first night since working tech at Dragon*Con. After awaking from some unremembered dream, I laid in bed and let random thoughts…
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Interesting Times
One of the best curses I’ve ever heard … May you live in interesting times I’ve been in event overload since going to Dragon*Con. There’s too much to write about, so I won’t even try. Instead, the audience will have to deal with the 10,000 foot overview of my life since last Thrusday.
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Bad Shipping Monkey!
Remember the death of my laptop? Regular siliconchef.com readers would remember this from Monday’s entry. Toshiba was nice enough to send my return shipping carton (it was waiting for me Tuesday morning). Their support is pretty darn good. I was promised express shipping with a 36 hour turnaround time. I boxed up the laptop, filled…