Archive for June, 2006
Tomorrow morning, 9am, final exam of the year. Immediately thereafter I’m off to the parents, carrying a suitcase full of clothes and a backpack filled with tech. I’ve only got a few hours to be with my family, because Friday morning the flight to San Francisco awaits me!
Two months of sunny Bay area, working with – if IM impressions serve, and no doubt they will – the great people from Jot. I’m staying at Stanford, with Kurt Peek (brother of Nadya), who happens to be from Twente University as well, and who’s doing physics research (now that’s way too complicated for me!).
Aside from work, I’m looking forward to meeting old contacts in the Bay area, I’m curious whether Jason Speck wears nice pants, how Dunstan is doing, et cetera, et cetera.
See you all on the other side of the pond. And continent.
P.S. If you happen to have my Dutch mobile number, I won’t be using it until I get back in September. My US number is +1 650 669 2654.
Reboot was a blast. Meeting with people from last year, meeting new people. Talking to the Plazes guys, hanging out in wonderful Copenhagen with Marten and Anne and everyone else we had the luck to run into or meet with. Joyent folks, Opera folks. Copenhagen folks. Like last year, this has been the best couple days of I ever took off.
Like last year, I again find myself very interested into tangible computing. Unlike last year, now I know I have to experiment with this myself. Time is another matter, but it can be made or set aside. And it would definitely be cool to be able to demo something at next years Reboot – that’s a pretty good goal, actually.
Reboot, as a conference, isn’t quite about the latest tech hype, it doesn’t teach you how to build websites or any of that jazz. It’s about people, interactions with each other and their environmnent. And I quite like that. See you there next year.
