- Signs of the timesJune 18
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Somewhere down a yellow brick road ....
- UMPC Trippin’June 5 2007
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Just got back from a family-vacation trip to Zion-Byrce-Grand Canyon. [Flew into Vegas, rented a car, drove to St. George Utah, rented an RV, used a RV Park as a base and did lots of great day trips and hikes in canyon country]. My Q1 UMPC has pretty much become my defacto travel machine, especially for personal vacations. Gone are the days of lugging a full-sized laptop around, even though that’s what 1 in 5 people are now doing.
When traveling I keep my Q1 in a little hard-case I snagged from a co-worker. Makes it easy to toss into a backpack without worrying about it getting crushed.
On the flight: In the air, the Q1 becomes our gaming/reading/entertainment machine. I usually keep a bunch of casual games on my Q1, specifically for travel purposes, and can pretty much get my kids to do anything by ‘bribing’ them with a little bit of game timeJ
- Post-winHEC PostMay 21 2007
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WinHEC 2007 seems to have gone well. UMPC exposure was pretty-decent. Bill Gates showed off UMPCs in his keynote. I presented a session on UMPCs (somewhat ambiguously titled ‘UMPC Ecosystem’ – I’ll post a link to the slides when they become public) and assisted my colleague Jeremy White on his UMPC ‘chalk talk’ (titled ‘Origami Experience and UMPCs’). Plus we had a UMPC booth at the tech ‘pavilion’ demonstrating several UMPCs to a continuous stream of the enthused, the curious, and the plain ol’ confused. After several days of non-stop reiteration and messaging of the UMPC potential, it was a highpoint to hear a member of the press in the audience speak up and say, “I finally get it – it’s a PC. That’s great. And so much less confusing than the previous messaging”. A similar sentiment was expressed in a nice little follow-up article (worth-reading) by David DeJean (InformationWeek) titled “Ok, So I Was Wrong About Origami”.
[Personal-Lesson-Learnt-Dept.]: Before I went to WinHEC, I had received the standard internal pre-conference warnings guidance to be careful abo
- Upcoming WinHEC ConferenceMay 10 2007
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[Nothing exciting today] Just a quick note that I will be presenting a UMPC session (think 'UMPC 101') at WinHEC in LA next week. If you're attending, do stop by the UMPC pavilion booth and/or attend the session or subsequent 'chalktalk'.
Once we're done with WinHEC I hope to go back to my regularly scheduled programming aka blog-postings :)
