Posts from November 2006

She found my phone in her car and brought it to me on break. Then we went to Sonoma Chicken which was one of the tastiest eateries I have ever eaten at. Where else do you get orchids on your salad.

The streaming media conference here is more intersting. One of the interviewers in the hall just asked a macromedia tech if youtube could even exist without macromedia. I have one word for that - ebaumsworld

I do love flash video though just because it makes dealing with cross platform that much easier.

As for the knowledge management conference it keeps getting lamer. The last session was about how to choose a vendor search solution.

It seems like everything is geared for managers and purchasing directors.

Let me give you a sample of a talk.

'Flexibility and User Experience'

At first glance sounds good like I could apply it to my work. Then you read the description, 'This session discusses the journey of several clients to solve their search needs within a portal environment. (still sounds good) It illustrates with concrete examples how SharePoint intergrated with eneterprise seach technology increases the findability of enterprise content, enhances the capabilities of a portal, and improves the user experience.'

The problem with this is that it is an infomercial for microsoft SharePoint. I am not using that, I have no purchasing power even if I wanted it, and I hate microsoft products. I can't even figure out how to search the body of emails in my inbox using microsoft outlook web client. Why would anyone ever want their search product. They can't even manage their own MSN search very well.

P.S. The people at the streaming media conference are more attractive. Is that just freak cooincidence or what. Maybe I just am more attracted to artists.

Not only did I not bring my laptop with me. I have now left my phone in @twisted's car which is returning to San Francisco. I cannot believe it is going to be a virtually technology free day. I suppose I can watch televison tonight or just go drinking.

One reason I want to life in Buffalo the rest of my life - TRAFFIC

We ate yummy food at a teashop too @theecarey

I had Saint John's Wort Tea and it made me feel insane. I kind of feel like a psuedo tripping dizzyness.

I do not recommend eating to many extreme sour candies like warhead. I feel so sick from it even though they tasted so good. I might as well have eaten a dozen lemons.

So far the conference has been a sort of vendor product infomercial. I hope tomorrow with it's focus on search will be more interesting.

I know it's not just me being picky because I hear other people complaining and so far a couple people have even challenged the speakers on what they were saying.

In the future, I would rather attend a developers conference, like the PHP one right near by or the database DB world conference in Toronto last month.

At least california is cool, sushi is cheap and they gave me a free ipod for registering early.

I am at The KM world intranets conference now. Skipped the google adaptive path guy web 2 speech for one on network metrics. I found it interesting but am amazed at how product centric it was.

Got a free ipod for signing up early. Ipod number three. The new washing machine hasn't eaten one yet.

So here I am at this big fancy corporate intranet conference and the graphic on the back of the program show an intranet on mac os 9 explorer. Low design budget? Things that make you go hm.

So I got to @twisted's house safely. I thought I was supposed to be staying at the Marriot but when I called they nor the Hilton at the event have a reservation for me and they are booked. At least I know someone here. I can't imagine what it would have been like if I took a bus there and then they didn't have reservations. Maybe I was supposed to make the reservations. Either way, at least I somewhere to stay and a way to the event.

Wish me luck.

Check your fucking shit so the rest of us don't have to wait twenty minutes to get out.
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We landed. As long as we don't have a teneride experience, I am safe.

P.S. Star Trek is cooler than star was according to wired magazine and I love sky mall. PMT need locators.

I am at the airport waiting to fly off the San Francisco. Believe itor not I only brought one school sized backback, wired magazine, and a book on java. Notice the stark lack of computer in there. It seems like everyone else has a laptop.

I guess I didn't want to subject the vaio to risk of loss or damage and I definitely do not want to play on the computer while I am there. I figure, if I don't have it at the conference I will be focred to pay attention (to my phone, lol) No just kidding I am excited about the conference and am curious If I can really make it a week without programming.

I suppose having the phone is kind of like cheating since in essence it is a mini laptop and fully networked. Maybe I will just ssh in and play on the server while I am sitting here. Oka, no I instead will read the java book.

I am kind of sad that I am leaving. I really don't like leaving my house very much anymore. Maybe I picked that up from @matthew as I used to travel wuite a bit.

Oh wait, I know what happed, it was the freakin terrorists. In my book they won because I am terrified of flying now. I would be much more excited about a train trip to California but I suppose all my days would be on the train.

See you soon @twisted and @iriesara

I bought this camcorder today. I am totally dissatisfied with the propriety nature of the video codec. It is like a DIVX movie but is some propriety samsung SEDG format. In order to use it I need to open the file with a hex edited, change instances of SEDG to DIVX and then run it through ffmpeg to turn it into flash video. Needless to say, it suffers along the way a bit which makes me question its usefulness. The camera itself rocks. It is so fast and responsive, it is tiny, has an external lense for head mounted recording and is an MP3 player, voice recorder, and and video cam. Too bad it's so proprietary. I really think that kind of crap needs to just end. I will probably return it.



It really ends up being no better than my cell phone.