| May. 23rd, 2009 @ 09:27 pm california, part 2 |
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so, california was pretty awesome.
my second day there it was right into the workshop. the whole thing was run as an open-spaces "un-conference". i'd never done that before. basically it means that at the beginning of the day each day everyone got a chance to pick a topic (at least mildly related to the conference) that they wanted to talk about. then all of these got put up onto the big schedule board. then everybody basically wandered around to the sessions that they wanted to. i'm surprised at how well it all worked out.
all said the conference was great. lots of really smart people all really invested in the area. a lot of good things came out of it, like facebook now supporting openid. that's a pretty big deal. and i think i might be working with some google guys to come up with an extension to the OAuth protocol to better support desktop apps. need to email a bunch of people about that, i think. three days of all that though and i was beat.
right after the conference, i spent some time wandering around the computer history museum where it was held. really cool place. and i got to see the babbage difference engine actually running. that was really, really, really awesome. i've got some pictures and video of the whole thing.
while i was out there, i met up with lorrie, who i'd gone to 2nd grade with and had recently found me on facebook. turns out she lives out there and works at apple now. so we went out to dinner and caught up on the past, like, 20 years of our life. and i rode a segway. didn't run into anything, even. still, not sure i'd want to take that around all the time.
before i left on thursday i got to have breakfast with courtnee again. that was great. and this time we managed to get a picture of us together to prove that we saw each other. my plane got delayed on the way back, which gave me enough time to start in on my DPL final. managed to finish that on the airplane and mail it out when i got back. guess we'll see how that went in a week or so.
when i got back on friday, i had a ton of meetings at work. turned out to be more than i even knew about -- a whole stack of them right on top of each other. what a fine welcome back that was. :-P but in spite of the many meetings i did manage to get a lot of good stuff done. well, i guess it was mostly meeting-stuff. but it was still stuff, and getting stuff done is good.
and i think i caught some odd bug from the plane. i've been vaguely congested since i got back, and that's the most logical explanation. nerts to that.
today, nathan and tristan and their attendant families came over for a "DPL is over" barbecue-and-bookburning. we hung out, chatted, ate lots of meat and other foodstuffs, then burned our textbooks. that was a thoroughly cathartic experience. |
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