Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Posted on the brand spanking new Tech Conference Podcast Channel, The Podcast Network is carrying the first of four Podcasts (mp3 recordings) from Etech 2005. First up is a big ‘interview’ show with the movers and shakers of Etech. Pop over, have a listen, and let me know what you think.
And it’s all over for another year. Emerging Technology is a strange type of conference. I’ve found it more tiring than the Symbian Expo’s and 3GSM’s of this world, even though they’ve all involved a fair amount of walking around the floor, or travelling time. I think it’s the sheer amount of information that needs to be absorbed in the 3 days of seminars that run almost wall to wall that’s just causing my brain to say ‘enough – let’s put some Proclaimers on the MiniDisc to give me something to numb the synapses. It’s also a strange conference because
Here we go, off to O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology again. Slightly different mindset this time as (a) I’m not speaking this time and (b) the OPL Book’s print run means I can’t sneak a few Wiley books into an O’Reilly event. Shame really. But the value of the people I can meet, be around and talk to is worth the ten days away from Vikki, Mairi and Eilidh. That’s going to be hard. Last year Vikki was pregnant with Mairi, but in London. This time around, she’s got family around her now we’re back living in Edinburgh, but another daughter to
Say what you like, but there’s nothing like a personal recommendation to get business, and then having good service to keep someone coming back. Such is my experience of Transatlantic flights, of which I’ve just booked the second such return trip in my life so I can attend Emerging Tech 2005. Last year I was getting a lot of help to book flights (one web window, one IRC window, “is this good?”) when three people at once siad you have to fly American Airlines. Now when p[eople I trust all agree, I pay attention. So I booked with AA, had
Well, that’s me bought the ticket for next year’s Emerging Technology Conference – The O’Reilly jaunt down to San Diego. Admittedly it’s a bit further away for me than Rael & Co, and I’ve a few more problems to work through – like where will I stay, will Crow get through US Customs without a strip search again, how to break it to Vikki, how much will flights cost me… Hmmm – anyone got any spare Air Miles?
The Call For Proposals for Emerging Technology 2005 has went up on the O’Reily website. Given the fun I had last year launching the UIQ version of the OPL Runtime, I’d like to be invited again. I only talked briefly about OPL last time, so this time I’d like to grab one of the three hour Technical Seminar sessions and show you lot what it can really do. And be there as a generic Symbian fan – they’re under represented in the USA at best. I’ve asked O’Reily what sort of feedback my intro to OPL got to help me
