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Monday: Took day off work to work on talks.
Tuesday: Talks not finished, took another day off. Finsh Wednesday talk at 1am.
Wednesday: Conference Day 1: Presented "What's New In Python (2006 Edition). Thurs/Fri talks still not done. Conference Dinner. Get home, decide to rewrite entire presentation software on top of IronPython for Thursday's talk. Still haven't actually finished Thursday's talk.
Thursday: Conf Day 2. Presented closing talk "futurepython". Spent much of the day writing talk, and working on software to present talk. Exposed http://codingweasel.blogspot.com/ to the world/
Quote of the day: "Hey, Anthony can I ask you about - " "No. Go away. Writing keynote now". Stop fiddling with talk 5 minutes before presenting. As far as I can tell, talk works remarkably well.
Get home, start tweaking Friday's Gstreamer (Audio Processing) talk. Realise power supply for one of the three sets of speakers I'm using for the talk no longer works. One dead set of HK speakers. Sadness.
Friday: Standing at big Dick Smith shop 5 minutes from conf venue when they open the doors at 9am. "Take me to the section with speakers, I need a pair, I'm talking in less than an hour". Buy new ones, rush to conference, setup all the audio hardware. Drop power supply for other pair of HK speakers on ground, watch it smash. No workie any more. Pull out spare crappy speakers. Have now killed 2 identical power supplies in less than 12 hours. As far as I can telll, 3rd talk of the conference still kicks arse. So very very many Muppet sound samples. Seriously consider wisdom of presenting 3 talks at one conference.
Hang about for 1/2 hour afterwards talking to people, then head home, then to work Xmas party. Bail on that at 10pm when it starts to get ugly. Pop into Pause Bar for a beer on the way home, end up in excellent conversation until an hour after they close the doors (yay for the lock-in). Get home, post this to LJ. Now sleep time.
Good night all.
Tuesday: Talks not finished, took another day off. Finsh Wednesday talk at 1am.
Wednesday: Conference Day 1: Presented "What's New In Python (2006 Edition). Thurs/Fri talks still not done. Conference Dinner. Get home, decide to rewrite entire presentation software on top of IronPython for Thursday's talk. Still haven't actually finished Thursday's talk.
Thursday: Conf Day 2. Presented closing talk "futurepython". Spent much of the day writing talk, and working on software to present talk. Exposed http://codingweasel.blogspot.com/ to the world/
Quote of the day: "Hey, Anthony can I ask you about - " "No. Go away. Writing keynote now". Stop fiddling with talk 5 minutes before presenting. As far as I can tell, talk works remarkably well.
Get home, start tweaking Friday's Gstreamer (Audio Processing) talk. Realise power supply for one of the three sets of speakers I'm using for the talk no longer works. One dead set of HK speakers. Sadness.
Friday: Standing at big Dick Smith shop 5 minutes from conf venue when they open the doors at 9am. "Take me to the section with speakers, I need a pair, I'm talking in less than an hour". Buy new ones, rush to conference, setup all the audio hardware. Drop power supply for other pair of HK speakers on ground, watch it smash. No workie any more. Pull out spare crappy speakers. Have now killed 2 identical power supplies in less than 12 hours. As far as I can telll, 3rd talk of the conference still kicks arse. So very very many Muppet sound samples. Seriously consider wisdom of presenting 3 talks at one conference.
Hang about for 1/2 hour afterwards talking to people, then head home, then to work Xmas party. Bail on that at 10pm when it starts to get ugly. Pop into Pause Bar for a beer on the way home, end up in excellent conversation until an hour after they close the doors (yay for the lock-in). Get home, post this to LJ. Now sleep time.
Good night all.
