chris @ June 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
So it’s over, and what a great experience it was.
(And not only because one of my pictures was used by the Guardian technology blog!)
Sure, there were annoyances. You’d think someone would have figured out how to provide stable wifi, even for a few hundred power users. And the joy at getting to keep the lovely […]
chris @ June 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
As I type, the geek crowd is mostly massed to the left and right of the center stage, chatting and last-minute hacking in the dark, by the glow of our laptop screens. The wifi is up, for a change. The mood is relaxed, though a teeny-tiny bit sleepy at times. We just got nice sandwiches […]
chris @ June 16, 2007 # One Comment
Right. This is more adventuresome than anyone had supposed. About at 1 pm, Ally Pally (one of the highest spots in London) was hit by, not one, but two lightnings. A tremendous thunder, a crash, a long squeak… and the smokevents went up: Slowly, unescapably, more than a dozen swing covers of the roof […]
chris @ June 13, 2007 # 3 Comments
Well, part of it is buying chocolate and fresh fruit to help making it through the long night.
I’m so looking forward to this, even if I feel apprehensive, as I’m just a so-so coder. But hey, I have other untapped strengths. Surely. Maybe.
Be that as it may, while looking at the presentation schedule […]
chris @ June 10, 2007 # No Comment Yet
So I’m attending the London Yahoo! Open Hackday, which will take place at Ally Pally next weekend. (Squeee! They accepted me!). I’m much looking forward to it, unwashed geeks and all. The idea is to hack up something within a day, preferably using the various Yahoo!/Flickr/BBC APIs. I’m not much fazed — I’m not going […]