GUADEC, Day One
Well it’s actually day two of GUADEC and the third day I’ve been in Germany, but I haven’t written about yesterday yet. Anybody who’s seriously interested in GUADEC can of course get all the information from the GUADEC site but I thought I’d talk about what I got up to. The welcome keynote was interesting, as it had an unexpected contribution from Seth Nickell who was eloquent, funny and also a little scathing of some things he sees that improvement is necessary. But that’s okay, because he’s right. Not to say that the other speakers weren’t also good of course.
Went to Keith Packard’s talk, then to Owen Taylor’s. Both very interesting. Chatted to Murray Cumming. Had a bit of a panic about battery power of the Powerbook (see yesterday’s entry). Located an Apple Store — today I went there and got myself a PSU. Woohoo! Now I have a spare, although it’s got a German plug on it so I’ll have to get an adaptor at the airport to use it at home. Of course, at home is the proper one… I think I’ll keep this spare one in my laptop bag at all times to help prevent this sort of thing happening again.
Much kudos and many thanks to the people who helped me find the shop and lent me power in the mean time.
Am now in Davyd Madeley’s talk on panel applets and it’s interesting so I’m going to start paying attention. More later.