The reception this evening was great. Lots of food. Tons of people. It ran smoothly. That is a compliment to the folks who are running this show. They have planned well and showed tonight that they cane service the crowd they expected. What to go NECC and San Diego Convention Center.
I had two techno moments. I read a blog that said that Palm was not going to be here. The wonder was if palm was going to abandon ed computing. That would be a shame because some excellent people did a lot of work using their products. The idea is sound, the concept of 1 to 1 computing devices and just in time learning will change education. Was the Palm the wrong vehicle? Will the $100 laptop be the right vehicle? I have been doing this too long and understand how the next new thing is always yesterday's news but my work and experience with my Palm stuff suggests that making technology ubiquitous and universal does change the way people integrate it into their lives. Yah hear me out there choir? Nod your keyboards and type amen!
OK the second techno moment. I was drawn to a poster session about an adventure ecology piece of software. It was from England. Typical adventure where you interact with characters to make the world better. Now the character titles were General Fear, Professor Ignorance and Chairman Greed. Huh? Talk about stereotyping! The gal was all over it and had her sales rap down. I wanted to ask her - what if you were a CEO and a good corporate citizen, working to make your company the best you could be in terms of your efforts to create zero environmental impact or even find ways to make things better? Are they all Chairman Greed? General Fear? She is in for one rough ride in this military town tomorrow I think.
The city continues to amaze. We could view 4 displays of fireworks going on on the bay and a fifth somewhat. Again a cool evening with the hard clothing choice if a long sleeve shirt or a short sleeve shirt.
necc06, necc, NECC
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