Sci-Fi Hi-Fi

I’m at Moscone West now, cooling my heels with everyone else as we wait for the keynote. There’s a very large number of people here—representing some decidedly unexpected companies (NASA, Disney, and Lockheed Martin in addition to the more obvious ones like Microsoft and Macromedia). I always find it kind of amusing to watch the discreet glancing people do at each other’s chests during trade shows like this as they attempt to find out who they’re looking at!

So far I’ve been able to get away with having my camera, but unfortunately I forgot my PC card compact flash adapter, so I’ll have to post my pictures later.

I’ll keep posting as long as my AirPort connectivity holds out (it’s been a bit dodgy so far, unfortunately).

I just opened Safari’s Rendezvous menu while connected to the hotel network, and guess what I saw?

It’s great to be among my own kind (and even greater to find out that the great Scottish poet Robert Burns is a Mac user!).

Just in case anyone is wondering what I’ll be doing at Worldwide Developers Conference next week, I’ve posted my anticipated schedule to the web. I may change my mind, of course, and there are still some slots where I haven’t decided which session to attend, but this will probably be how my week will be spent. I feel like I’m back in college planning my quarter (yes, my alma mater is one of the few still using the quarter system!).

I will definitely have a digital camera and my PowerBook with me at all times, and I plan to blog the hell out of this thing, so stay tuned!

(Update: As the WWDC FAQ points out, cameras are strictly verboten, and I will be subject to a strict non-disclosure agreement, so my plans to “blog the hell” out of the conference might be—ahem—scaled back a bit. Rest assured, though: anything I can say, I will say!)