online conference

I arrived in Geneva about an hour ago and proceeded to withdraw way too much money from the ATM by mistake (darn exchange rates).

Hotel Capitole initial reactions: Friendly staff. Room smells of old cigarettes (or mold; I hope it's old cigarettes), and (surprise, surprise) the WiFi doesn't work! (Will hotels figure out how to provide Internet connectivity properly in our lifetimes?)

Oh yeah, and it's a good thing I checked about the time difference (I live in the UK) because there's an hour difference. Even though my iPhone is set to automatically change timezones it didn't pick it up.

And did I mention I picked up a lovely little Asus Eee PC at the duty free in Gatwick. I can't wait to charge this baby up and play with it a bit more. Ah, and I've added yet another charger to my rapidly growing collection (it's a good thing I've gotten into the habit of carrying along a multi-socket extension cable whenever I travel; that way you only need one adapter at the end).

So I'm at the hotel and I have no idea where the conference is -- or whether Thomas Vander Wal's ticket has transferred to my name correctly (apparently it has but I don't see my name listed in the attendee list.) No big deal, I'm sure we'll get it sorted tomorrow.

Which reminds me, I gotta stop writing this and get back to finding out where I need to go and what's happening tomorrow (I decided to come down on a whim yesterday afternoon!)

Oh and I've got oodles of emails to reply to about Singularity. What is Singularity? Why, it's the world's first large-scale online web conference :) We just announced it yesterday and I've been getting some amazing feedback on it ever since.

Looking forward to meeting some of you, seeing more of Geneva, and experiencing the conference tomorrow :)