A Night for the Geeks

Geek night was a blast.

 

I've always wanted to see my name in lights. This is the project of the team presenting before me, who showed what happens when you marry dance floor displays with Wii remotes. They could draw on it, play games and, as you can see above, write silly messages.

The audience. Sorry it is a bit blurred, but the house light were off at this point..

The talk was fantastic, even the 8 player button bash game went well, although the players on controller one did suffer a bit when someone reset the counter....

I'm doing it all again tomorrow. And a book signing.....

Micro Framework at DevDays 2008

So today it is time for another chapter in my jetsetting life...

The view from the plane was nice.

They had this special machine for installing tall presenters..

The talk was on the .NET Micro Framework, which is something I really enjoy taking about. The audience were great, and put up with my jokes, which is nice. I got to know them so well that I told them about "My Awful Experience in Schipol Airport a Toilet" this morning.....

I always take the pictures at the start, while the audience is still smiling. And in the room....

Packing for DevDays

Tomorrow is DevDays in Amsterdam. I'm just packing and charging gadgets for the trip. I'm giving three talks, including one at Geek Night.  I made a spectacularly embarrassing video for the event where I pretended to confuse the name with Greek Night. Fortunately I can't seem to find it on the site.....

Powerdown Power

First I must declare a vested interest here. David has promised to buy me a vest if I mention his software.

Actually no. In the old days only my mother bought my vests. Now number one wife does it.

But I work with David, which is how come I can recommend things he makes. Like Powerdown. You can get it here. It turns your computer off when you aren't using it. And makes it come back on quickly when you need it again.  It is particularly interesting for large companies, who might have hundreds, perhaps thousands, of machines which they would like to make greener.

Powerdown also provides a way of controlling the power characteristics of large networks of computers from a single point, properly integrating with corporate systems to make things easy to manage.

Well worth a try.

Amazing Picture

I was messing around with some software to see if I can use webcam as a video viewer of the screen of a Zune. It doesn't work. (I can't focus close enough). But you do get amazing pictures when you leave the webcam lying on the desk.