Montag, 22. Juli 2002

The speaker is Kip Hampton

Now in Perl and XML. Perl geeks are in the majority. XML geeks (I suppose that includes me: 3). That's out of about 60.

Spotted Paul Prescod at breakfast..

Monday: Currently sitting in Mastering Data Structures and References in PERL. Complex stuff for me of little (rather: old) PERL knowledge.

Connectivity Room: Just went down to the geek room...I mean the connectivity room - and it's full of Macs ... and they're all running Jaguar. Cool.

Time passes I have noticed that my iBook is still on German time so I am posting this at 6pm in the evening on Sunday here in San Diego. But according to my weblog it's Monday - which of course it is in Germany. And .. wirless is working!

Conference registration:Stood in line to register. Lots of "speaker professionals", lots of "Hey I remember you from your Guru-C++ talk in Peking" - or similar at least. Travel notes: Sunday: awake at 7am. Overcast. Where is the sun? All American breakfast. Wrong dress code: I am not wearing a t-shirt that says "Linux rocks" or similar. Plenty of conference types at breakfast. Then a walk into Downtown (45 minutes) - strange look on the concierge's face "You want to walk there..?". Spent most of the day at the Horton Plaza. Then rode the tram out to Mission Valley Center. Lots of shopping (mostly for the kids). Saturday (still): Arrived in San Diego on time after an 11 hr flight from Gatwick. BA 777 with in-seat flight entertainment. I could have watched "panic room" at least 3 times. Shuttle to the hotel in sunny warm weather. There were conference geeks in the row in front of me. Sonmeone else using an iBook ("8 hrs - I have 2 batteries"). So I am not the only person going. Stayed awake as long as I could (7pm), had a blackened chicken burger with fries - and went to bed. BTW: It is expensive here! And still no wireless. I also forgot to bring the phone cable (which wouldn't have fit anyway).