Hotsos 2010 - Day 1.79 - Friends show up

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.