Month: May 2005

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Reflected

WWDC Itinerary

Okay folks, it’s all booked now. Here’s my travel and session details for WWDC 2005; if you’re interesting in doing something the days/nights I’m available, please let me know as soon as possible via the usual channels. I reserve the right to begrudgingly manipulate this post for the next three weeks as things come up and vendor meetings get scheduled.

**Flight Out**:

Saturday, June 4th
JetBlue Flight 591, JFK -> OAK, departs at 4:40 PM EDT, arrives at 7:50 PM PDT.
Pickup by Nicole.

**Hotel**:

I’m staying at a hotel relatively close to Union Square and/or the Moscone center.

**Sunday**

– I have no real plans, other than doing early checkin to the conference.
– Nastassya Ferns has claimed the day post 7PM.

**Monday Sessions**

– Keynote (10:00 – 12:00)
– OS X State Of The Union (2:00 – 4:00)
– Enterprise IT State Of The Union (4:15 – 5:30)
– [Weblogger dinner](http://www.scifihifi.com/wwdc-meetup/) starting at 7 PM.
– Unofficial birthday thing: 9:00-10:30PM. Metreon arcade. Show up if you want to.

**Tuesday Sessions**

– Mac OS X Server Overview *OR* AMP On Mac OS X (9:00 – 10:30)
– WebObjects Overview (10:30 – 12:00)
– Darwin Feedback Forum (2:00 – 3:30)
– Active Directory Integration (3:30 – 5:00)
– WebObjects and J2EE Development Workshop (5:00 – 6:30)

**Wednesday Sessions**

– Moving to Tiger Server from Windows (9:00 – 10:30)
– Mac OS X Server Feedback Forum (10:30 – 12:00)
– Leveraging The Power Of ACLs (2:00 – 3:30)
– (Sub)version Control for the Rest of Us (3:30 – 5:00)
– Managing Clients in the Enterprise (5:00 – 6:30)
– Susan Michael has claimed the evening.

**Thursday Sessions**

– Deploying Mac Servers and Clients, Start To Finish (9:00 – 10:30)
– Integrating Mac OS X into a Heterogeneous Environment (10:30 – 12:00)
– Monitoring Your System with ARD and Open Source (2:00 – 3:30)
– Core OS Enhancements for BSD Developers (3:30 – 5:00)
– Evening: Apple Campus Bash, Security Meeting

**Friday Sessions**

– Configuring and Deploying Oracle on Mac OS X (9:00 – 10:30)
– Free Time (10:30 – 12:00)
– Network Authentication (2:00 – 3:30)
– Java and WebObjects Feedback Forum (3:30 – 5:00)
– Building Automator Actions for System Administrators (5:00 – 6:30)
– Suw Charman has claimed rights to this evening.

**Flight Back**:

Saturday, June 11th
JetBlue Flight 596, OAK -> JFK, departs at 11:10 AM PDT, arrives at 7:35 PM EDT.

Categories
Found

Beatmania USA Announced

After years and years of it being a joke in the community, Konami is releasing a US version of beatmania IIDX. Over 50 songs, apparently split between a 7-key mode and a 5-key mode. Engine is the 9th Style engine with some tweaks – the stars are back, amusingly.

Aaron Ramsey has dug through the 62 “screenshots” (mostly artwork, not screens) that Gamespot put up, and has generated a partial songlist including the following:

– Metal Gear Solid Main Theme
– La Bossanova de Fabienne
– Hunting For You
– Overblast!!
– Dancin’ Into The Night
– Nothing Ain’t Stoppin’ Us
– in my eyes
– Paranoia Max “Dirty Mix”
– The Shining Polaris
– I Was The One
– Star Field (not totally confirmed)

Most of the players who frequent this site (who already know about the announcement) will groan with this songlist, as it’s certainly leaning towards the easy side of the song list, but that’s to be expected for a first US mix. It’s nice to see the five-key revivals, although I would enjoy it more if they were songs I had more of an interest in (Inclusion of *Feel The Light* would mean I could finally ditch the PSX games).

The implications of this release are honestly boggling my mind to the point where I’m finding it hard to type – I will need some time to digest it all. Needless to say, VJ Army will be supporting the US mix, and any further US mixes down the line.

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Reflected

The Cat Is Stuck In Popcorn

Back in February, I detailed one of my few recurring health problems – bloody noses – shortly after I had it fixed. I wrote at the time that I had only two slightly bizarre health problems, and was otherwise normal.

I’ve been reminded of a third after events of last night; a health problem that I am not consciously aware of until it’s too late.

You see, my friends, apparently I talk in my sleep, in a somewhat hilarious manner.

My sister told me once long ago that one time when she was coming upstairs, she heard me repeating “TACO….TACO!!!!” in my sleep. I shrugged – and started sleeping with the door closed.

This isn’t a frequent thing – I’m not babbling every night, as far as I know. Then again, maybe I am and I just don’t wake up Katie half the time. After getting married, I do have someone who has to put up with me next to her each night.

Katie has occasionally mentioned that I’ll wake her up with some babbling, and annoyingly I seem to know how to shake her arm to wake her up while I’m asleep; one time while we lived in Ithaca, I woke her feverishly claiming that “the Chinese were coming”. This becomes problematic because when she starts shouting “WHAT?!” at me, I wake up – and my brain is fully in the context of yes, Kate, the Chinese are coming, yet I have no idea why or what it means or anything. So I sit there, wide awake, trying to explain what exactly I mean, only to inevitably get exasperated and tell her to just forget it.

Last night, I apparently shook Katie awake and uttered the words that will now haunt me forever:

THE CAT IS STUCK IN POPCORN.

Artist’s rendition of my wacked-out brain.

Katie’s retelling of this to me while I was on the phone with her this morning:

You shook me awake really hard, and your eyes were wide open, and you looked so scared, and just kept telling me, “THE CAT IS STUCK IN POPCORN.” I looked at the cat, and he was looking at me as if to say, “I don’t know what the HELL he’s talking about.”

So, needless to say – if you want hilarity, just hang out with me when I’m asleep. I am apparently a freaky laugh riot.