An audience of two

Monday October 02, 2006

Insomnia
It's 3AM and I can't get back to sleep. The 15TOG duvet isnt helping, but it's not the problem; something's bugging me. Then finally it hits me.

I missed the walkthrough. Was there one?

The walkthrough is something that we always did on the final day of setup. The core team would go round and check each room to make sure that the mikes worked, the computer was setup and can route OK, the graphics resolution matched the native resolution of the LCD projector (nothing says "lack of attention to detail" quite like small text on a high resolution slide being scaled down by a projector and displayed on a huge screen.)

Some years I'd be too busy to join the walkthrough myself so I'd ask Derek or Gabe to do it and just be called in to fix whatever problems arose. There were always problems, especially when we were in Denver; the static could be relied on to break something. One year we ran out of backup systems and had to send someone back to Broomfield to fetch more.

This year the systems are all brand new and near identical, and have been reistalled from a master disk image that I configured, so we should be good to go. Plus I know the team were checking each system as they went along.

But still it's bugging me.

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