Category: 2005

Conferences and events attended in 2005.

The Apple iPod Shuffle Shuffle from OpenTech 2005

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Okay, not exactly one of my better ideas, but in the end nobody got hurt, and the iPod Shuffle with the PGP Private Key got back to it’s rightful owner. What am I talking about? My Physical Media Hacking experiment at OpenTech 2005. I’m still convinced the theory behind this is pretty sound (especially when you see the number of Apple fans defending the concept of the iPod Shuffleand the idea that listening to random music is the way forward). The experiment was planned to go something like this. Two pairs of volunteers would come forward from the OpenTech audience

Pictures from San Jose Are Up

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Yes, finally I’ve managed to pull the pictures of the MMC card that was hiding in the offline 6600 that I was using in San Jose and San Diego. Of course I never got around to paying the crazy roaming GPRS charges while I was over there, and I couldn’t be bothered jumping through hoops to go from MMC to N-Gage to USB to PC to Email to Moblog while I was out there (hey I was launching and promoting All About Palm like crazy, you wanted me to stop so you could site-see?). Anyway, you can click through to

“I Met Ewan” says Mike Rohde

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One of the people I met up with at the PalmSource DevCon (and there were a lot of people to meet) was Mike Rohde. Mike’s a bit of a mover in Palm circles, being a member of the Palm User Council and joining in with the PUG’s. Anyway, his blog post for day two covers the time we spent with each other (and Russ Beattie). In his words “Ewan… was straight out of Braveheart, complete with tartan kilt, sporran and a mediaeval shirt with a hand tied collar.” Ever wondered what it’s like to stumble over me at a Conference?

Do You Know The Way [Home] From San Jose?

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Well the planned trip home got as far as sitting down in American 757, before we all got off again. Turns out the engines were not going to do the engine thing, so the flight was cancelled and we were ‘asked’ to call American’s Telecenter to get different flights out to New York JFK. I suspect that I was in a better position than most as my destination wasn’t actualy JFK, but London Heathrow, so I could take a flight from any of the American hubs that had a single seat to the UK (which I’m sure means Chicago, JFK,

I Hope You’re Adaptable, Dr Scott

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Friday after PalmSource DevCon. Here’s what the original plan was. Fly down to San Diego, meet up with Jim McMurray (mcunixjr on #joiito), hang around a bit, before some shopping on Saturday and fly home Sunday morning. Well, we changed the plans, and it was such a great day I’m glad we did. Joi Ito was going to be in LA, so Jim suggested meeting up in LA instead, along with Sean Bonne and Chris Hollands. Could I change my flight tickets? Turns out the answer there was no, my American tickets (being the cheapest of the cheap) were non-refundable

Final Post Direct from PalmSource DevCon

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It’s all over. I am absolutely shattered. If I could have split in two by a horrible transporter accident, I could have covered twice as much and still not met everyone I wanted to, or talked to the hundreds of interesting people that All About Palm can help and be helped by. So rather than a great big summary of DevCon (you’ll find that over at All About Palm) I want to throw out a few personal thank yous. I’m not going to get round everyone, so apologies if you’re not here and you did help me out – I