Ugh, LWE is over. While it was great to see so many businesses take linux seriously, it was bad karma to see the commercialism rule at the trade show, half the booths did not even have any technical staff to answer technical questions, all they could do was point to their webpage blablabla.

yakk was here for the week. That was pretty cool. He flew 26 hours from Perth to SF for just one week, getting his contract with eazel and attending the LWE.

We got up at the crack of dawn on tuesday, to make it to the keynote speech by Michael(sp?) Dell (ceo of dell. We wanted to see it, since he was supposed to demo nautilus. Well, the demo consisted of launching his presentation from nautilus and took about 10 secs - and we missed it. The rest was an hourlong commercial for Dell. Gah.

Thereafter I strolled around at the trade show, didn't feel well, and was tired. I met a lot of the helix people again and some of the rhad labs people. 'twas good. Also got intercepted by campd, whom I haven't seen since the 99 guadec.

At 13, the gnome press conference was on, where the shaking news of sun, ibm and hp adoption of gnome as the default desktop (instead of CDE) was revealed, plus their place in the newfounded Gnome Foundation. All good news, though some people understandably are nervous about it.

But anyways, after strolling around a bit, it was time for my boothbabe duty. So I sat for some hours doing the same 10 min demo of nautilus over and over again, while being bombarded with either good questions or hostile kde evangelist questions and the amusing questions from marketing drones who didn't get the free software thingy at all.

Well, at the end I truly felt like crap, so lucky we got home rather early.

Next morning we didn't go too early, I was defintely running a low fever now and wasn't really feeling like another tour of boothbabe'ness. But I did it, but still got to sneak away to actually bond with the various hackers present. Later that night was the Eazel/HelixCode LWE party, which was good, loads of hackers and free beer - good combo. Luckily I was feeling much better at this time. rebecka came up with the idea of using the suite we had at the hilton for an extended after-party. So there we were, in the suite with loads of beer (roomservice, ah...) and hackers. There was loads of the Redhat guys, some Helix people and others, highlights were

• Maciej being groped on by some girl
• Komrat Judy - you will drink for the party!
• seth singing to his rootbeer under the table
• getting hugged by josh (wah!)
• Martin Baulig wanting to get out of the car on the 101 to piss - two times!
• ordering wakeup service for 7 o'clock (I wasn't staying there...)

So finally on the last day, it was loot gathering time - got four t-shirts and random crap. Bought some cool mints for Bjerregaard. All was good.

On friday we didn't get to work till noon, and then there was marathon meetings followed by post LWE beer bash. So all in all, I didn't get any work done this week. Also dropped the car of at a mechanic. My heat problems was probably related to the fact that the radiator fans didn't come on - so now I get to exercise my 12 month warranty, yay. Later that we ate at Ruth's Chris Steak house. Pricy but excellent steaks, it still goes Moo whenever I go to the shitter (lidt som den 1200g culotte jeg delte med Jacob på Bryggeriet).

Saturday evening, Frederik and Rebecca(sp?) showed up (old komrade from Studenterhuset). So we went for food, chitchat in our highspeed encrypted communications systems (danish) and then for beer at the Kilowatt. It was real good to have a dane by again. They crashed at our place (which meant I got to sleep in the futon with george - eek!). Next day we went up to the hill at the top of 16th, great view. Then we went to Haight Ashbury for some food, dropped of Rebecca who needed a shopping fix, while Frederik and I went for the Lombard Street experience. Of course this was in the car he had borrowed, wouldn't go up that hill in my car with manual...So after that, they took off, we'll hopefully go for the usual highway 1/santa cruz/highway 84/35 drive on wednesday or such.

Back home, it was satellite dish assembly & mounting time. All went well, and we've now got access to unlimited amount of crap on the tv. Bliss!

Tænk, ingen har rigtig generet mig denne uge, hverken folk jeg bor med eller kolleger. Dvs for at holde gennemsnittet, bør denne uge have en høj koncentration...

(summary for the danish impaired : fuck off).