Well, I made it through the wilds of LA to downtown and the Convention Center in only an hour -- Shelby and I figured that it'd take two, at least. Still, I don't envy anybody who has to make that commute every day. (I'm reminded of someone I knew from church in Berkeley who was able to go off of his entire regimen of blood-pressure medications after he retired and stopped driving an 80-mile round-trip commute each day.)
This morning we had a keynote from Bill Gates (broken into two pieces with a totally out-of-context but still highly amusing video of Bill roaming the countryside with Napoleon Dynamite -- yes, really), then we were hit with the Vision Thing -- demos of Windows Vista, demos of the next version of Office, capped off with a "now do you want to see some COOOOOOOODE????" set of demos in how, using these SIMPLE TECHNOLOGIES ALREADY PRESENT in Windows Vista, you can do AMAZING THINGS in JUST A FEW MINUTES OF TYPING!!!! (And, no doubt, hours of back-room preparations to make these 'it only takes a few minutes' demos come off looking so effortless.)
Most entertaining typos made by this morning's closed-caption typist (you could tell that this wasn't a tech person):
'TELEPATTY' : Telephony
'THE X AMOUNT' : XML
. . . more from Geek Central later.
Posted by Kevin at September 13, 2005 12:45 PM