I was in Dusseldorf on Monday evening to talk at an event called Mobile Monday. This was an evening event with short presentations from various company's (Nokia, Vodafone, Siemens, etc) and then discussion over a few beers about what was happening in this market. I talked about what Sun are doing for the future of mobile Java explaining the Mobile Services Architecture, MIDP 3.0 and Java FX Mobile (as just announced at JavaOne). There was some lively discussion afterwards, especially around what impact the iPhone might have and competing technologies like scripting languages. All good fun.

It's been a while since I've been to Germany so I wasn't quite ready for the taxi ride from the airport. I got into my Mercedes E class taxi (yep, that's just a normal run-of-the-mill taxi, not a limo) and off we go. Watching the speedo hit 160kmph I remembered that the good old autobahn has lots of sections where there's no speed limit. Apparently the recommendation of 130kmph doesn't hold much sway with taxi drivers.

Next week I'm off to Zurich for Jazoon where I'm doing a Sun SPOT presentation on Monday afternoon and then Tuesday evening it's off to Barcelona for The Server Side Java Symposium. I'll be doing the Sun keynote demos along with Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart. I'm really looking forward to going to Barcelona, as it's been a long time since I was last there and there's my all time favorite tapas bars, Txapella. I'm just wondering how many times I can go there in the three days we'll be there.