An audience of two

Wednesday October 10, 2007

Bitching about my iPhone again.
The iPhone includes a 2 megapixel camera. It doesn't take bad pictures (for a phone) even though its low-light handling is poor and it has no zoom or flash. It'll never replace my Canon Powershot, but it's great that I have been able to carry around one device and email the photos directly to Flickr.

Unfortunately, there are some huge issues with it, both concerning moving the photos to a computer. When you view them on the phone the pictures are in chronological order. But when I use the Microsoft Camera Wizard to transfer them to my laptop they get completely shuffled naming wise and it doesn't maintain the orientation correctly. The other problem is that it keeps locking up; the laptop says that it can't transfer the file and I have to reboot the phone.

The other thing that really bugs me is that there's no scrollbar on the web browser or email client. There is no quick way to skip to the end of a 250Kb message, which is insanely frustrating.

The inability to select a block of text to cut and paste is frustrating too.

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CEC Videos: America

Here's a montage of photos that I took over the past week. Enjoy.

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Closing Session
Dan Berg keeps banging on about Second Life. Apparently it's been very popular. Granted it's very pretty, but I still don't get it.

Chat show featuring representatives from EBay, EDS, Microsoft and Fox pontificating on "the end of computing as we know it". But it doesn't seem to be capturing the attendees' interest - the room is half empty and a lot of people are walking out.

Don Grantham. I didn't realise he was British. Lots of rah-rah: The stock is up, we are delivering on our commitments, we are growing and making profits at last. We're on track to make 10% margin in FY09 as promised. The room is getting emptier; this should have been yesterday's session with Jonathan closing it out.

He also spoke about Sun Connection and how important it is - that's two major plugs in general sessions. He even mentioned SRS :(

Here we go, he's about to say what the plan is for next year - he's signed the contract to hold it in Las Vegas again next November. He wasn't specific as to exactly where - will it be here at Paris/Bally's again? Probably; I'll try to find out. I admit I'm ambivalent about that - on the one hand Vegas is a good location, I've had a great time, and I love that it takes just moments to walk from my room to the various sessions, but on the down side security has been a nightmare simply because (as I think I blogged earlier) it's not just a hotel, it's a massive hotel that's open 24x7 and actively encourages people to wander in. We've had equipment go missing and all kinds of technical issues specifically caused by not being in a true convention centre.

Update:Dan confirmed - same place.

I have no idea who put together the closing video, but I'm sure he's on crystal meth. I've never seen so many speeded-up clips and ultra-fast zooms and pans - I thought I was watching a Blipvert. I'm surprised that nobody had a seizure or exploded.

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Best Video!
SWEET! SysNet scooped the Best video award!

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Party at the Palms
Well, that was disappointing. It took 45 minutes to get there, only to find that the place was insanely cramped and the lines for the drinks and food were endless. The cover band were so loud that conversation was impossible - SMS was the best option for communication. Once I squeezed into Rain things got a little better; a few video games set to free play, shorter lines for the bar (the red wine was undrinkable) and food (very bad Taquitos and chips) and slightly better entertainment; some guy playing with a flaming sword, but that was about it. I bailed very early and went to dinner with friends. I hope that things improved after I left, but somehow I doubt it.

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