Explicitly and without apology a marketing vehicle MaryMaryQuiteContrary

Wednesday Sep 22, 2004



With the Wall Street event officially concluded, I wanted to take a minute to introduce you...

some of the spectacular professionals...

girls

who made all this possible.


(regrets for the pictures i'm not publishing here. i had taken more. but we had technical issues. forgive me for the obvious omissions, please.)

Your big take-aways:
  1. Tune in to the Network Computing event (available on replay, on demand) to get clued into what's going on. You're going to love this thing. really hot UI.
  2. Check out the top story on Computing Pay Per Use.


That's it from NY, people.

Well not really, actually.  Because a certain somebody (me) is going to an awards ceremony tonight. And if developments warrant, we'll be briefing you on what transpires there. I am going to be wearing a black designer (Georgiou) dress, strappy high heel sandals. I want to blend in with the Madison Avenue types. But regretably I don't own any expensive sun glasses or handbags, so I think they'll to see right through me. whatever. I got myself invited to this thing. i'm going. i'll do my best to fit in.

mary

Guess what....

picture

One degree of separation from Frank Zappa.

Well, except that Zappa is dead. So I guess it would be two degrees becasue you'd have to go through God.

totally serious.

I'm not going to share the particulars as I didn't ask for permission and it's a personal story. Found that out at the big techno celeb bash.

Everybody's got a story.

It's just that some stories are more interesting than others.

mary

the highlight of the evening was the drawing for two free JavaOne 2005 full conference passes. (value: approx $2K but too lazy to look it up)

Here we've got the drawing...

and the lucky...

winners...

were very excited!

so cool!

mary



It was the Lollapalooza of the techno world, packed (literally) into the Manhattan Penthouse.

Complete with..
picture of the band

.... live entertainment.

Everybody who was anybody was there, including

me and mark

Mark Stahlman, father of the phrase "Network Computing," (got that little tidbit from Hal Stern, who was also there)

hey, did you see that NY Times story Monday? read it. and you'll see the connection.

me and hal

here's me with Hal. love that guy!

I'm telling you, peopole... you could't go two steps without running into techno celebs...

Ramsey

(Ramsey isn't so much a techno celeb but he was really nice so he gets to be in the blog)

We had techno celebs...

demo

... doing demos.

We had the techno celebs holding court...

holding court

... on new features that are coming in Solaris 10, including ZFS and..

hlding court two

DTrace.

Some of these guys were getting seriously into the conversation...

kinda crazy guy

there was passion in the room, people.

And also hands-on access

 demo

to some really killer demos. literally. this was a game where you went around and killed everybody. it's very popular (apparently). i can't remember what it's called. but all you hip youngsters know what i'm talking about. here it's running on Sun Java Desktop System on one of our new x86 boxes.

It was loads of fun.

The best part: Free JavaOne 2005 Full Conference Pass (value: ~$2K; can't remember exactly and too lazy to look it up).

more on that later...

mary