Friday May 09, 2008

My keynote this morning went off flawlessly. You can watch it on UStream. I'd like to thank everyone who contributed: The demos were all incredibly inspirational. I was in awe of every one of them. The main hall at Moscone was packed. The production crew was totally perfect, despite all the re-arranging of the plan. And the Sun crew were their usual wonderful selves.

My keynote is easy. Everybody else doing talks at JavaOne has to figure out what to say. I poke around the community and grab stuff. There's so much cool stuff being done that the hardest part of putting the toy show together is picking. I just have to stand back in awe and ask a few inane questions.

Controlling the most complex instrument ever made by mankind.... (the Large Hadron Collider) Surfing a constellation of satellites around mars and mining their data... A pen as a computing platform... The realtime stuff becoming mainstream.... Instrumenting the world... Another generation of smart cards... And smart cars... Massive graphical acceleration on a cell phone... Killer massively multiplayer games... Great web infrastructure tools for creating and introspecting... "the network is the computer" Hah! => "the network is the world"

But the best part was helping to give John Gage his well deserved lifetime achievement award.

Now it's time for a beach and a beer. Permalink Comments [7]

I don't know how some people manage to blog so much. Yesterday was another huge blur. A big chunk was rehearsing for my keynote this morning. It's kinda easy for me because it's mostly demos, and they're all wickedly cool. We added a new one late last night because some folks got something to work that was pretty magnificent. Drives the stage crew mad. But it all works out in the end.

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