Today, we are (yes Tom and Rachel are joining me) flying to San Jose, California, so I can attend the innovation@Sun conference, and give a talk on Wednesday afternoon. It's a little nerve-racking, because I'm giving the "soft" talk -- the one on user research and persona development -- not on chip-level multi-threading. I'm not giving this talk to my organization, but to the Sun Fellows and Distinguished Engineers -- Sun's technical leadership. People like Radia Perlman, and James Gosling ... there were only 10 talks accepted for this conference, and our (my colleague Nalini and my) abstract was one of them. Personas and user research hit the big time at Sun ... we'll see how we fare.
Wish me luck :)