{"id":604,"date":"2006-03-20T22:42:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2006-03-21T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T23:10:10","slug":"microsoft-has-no-power-at-mix06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/microsoft-has-no-power-at-mix06\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Has No Power at Mix06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much petty cash would it cost to send someone with a keen eye on conversations (<a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/20\/microsoft-too-business-oriented-to-get-web-20\/\">Scoble!!!<\/a>) down to the hardware store, grab 40 garden power extension coils, and then plug in some power strips to these and spread them throughout all the rooms?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly have their own DIY power boards they seem to take everywhere with them &#8211; does Tim have some in his room? Or some gaffa tape so you he can &#8216;Make&#8217; some?<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re expected to tag, post, mix, remix, and have a conversation, then we can&#8217;t be limited to the 90 minutes that you can be sure you&#8217;ll have power on your laptop &#8211; if Microsoft are listening, they have two and a half days to prove it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Robert Scoble has pointed out that there are fire regs stoppping cables in the floor. All well and good and practical, but it doesn&#8217;t really solve the main problem. I also note some nice balck and yellow tape over the power cables from the wall to the tables in the Press Room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much petty cash would it cost to send someone with a keen eye on conversations (Scoble!!!) down to the hardware store, grab 40 garden power extension coils, and then plug in some power strips to these and spread them throughout all the rooms? O&#8217;Reilly have their own DIY power boards they seem to take everywhere with them &#8211; does Tim have some in his room? Or some gaffa tape so you he can &#8216;Make&#8217; some? If we&#8217;re expected to tag, post, mix, remix, and have a conversation, then we can&#8217;t be limited to the 90 minutes that you can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-9K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}