Category: Personal

Thank you Geoff & Julie for inviting me to speak again at this years MXDU. Your hospitality was really sweet, and you all + your team went out of your way to make her majesty and I feel welcome, comfortable, and entertained.

Thank you Aral for saving my hide during my presentation. For those of you who didn’t know, her majesty’s Alienware doesn’t have the standard monitor attachment; it has like DVI or something else with no attachments. I simply loaded the FLA that was my preso on Aral’s laptop + source files and she worked like a charm!

Thanks Andrew for letting me see your phat pad and to eat all of your food.

Thanks Chafic, Peter, and Guy for letting her majesty and I crash with you all in your apartment for the last 3 days or so; a LOT cheaper and it was great to hang.

Thanks Matt for keeping us organized on that since 4 engineers seem incapable of getting a room together a 2nd time around.

Thanks Kai & Diane for doing our laundry and dishing out all the food.

Thanks Graeme for showing me first in the MXDU Voice of the People and explaining the basics of Japanese to me.

It was great to meet all you who I hadn’t met before. Putting faces to emails n’ blogs rox, and meeting new people from other parts of the world is really cool too… as well as seeing old friends again.

I’d say the only thing uncool about MXDU 2005 was getting my arse handed to me by Mike C & Mike D of Macromedia in Halo 2. There were a few matches where I was owning, but overall, it was a pretty sad attempt for JesterXL to represent in gaming.

Someone asked me at the conference to see if ARP works in Central, gotta check that out. Also, I’ll go find that Flash garbage collection article.

See you all on XBox Live, and hopefully at MXDU 2006!

Settling into the room here @ Star City Hotel, and quickly feeling guitly utilizing the shiny ethernet cable after reading Kai’s ability to utilize bandwidth for free vs. my 10 billion dollars per bit. We left our wireless card at home back in the states.

I speak tomorrow morning, so “finishing” up my work for it. Much rather be drinking, playing XBox, and enjoying the awesome weather instead of working & doing homework.

I’m on the 7th floor (723), my AIM is CentralXL, and her majesty and I will be at Star City for at least 4 nights; hopefully we’ll see you around and at the banquet tonight! If you shout out at the pool on the 5th floor (6th?) I’ll hear you.

Made it into Sydney, Australia last night at about 10:30pm. Coding this morning until I find an outlet converter, we checkout, or this laptop battery dies… whichever comes first. We check out of this airport hotel at 11am, and catch a bus to catch a bus to Bondi Beach where our hotel #2 of 5 is. I think I’ve adjusted significantly quicker to the time change compared to 2 years ago… it just took 3 days of little to no sleep to prepare.

Anyway, LOT’s of work to do before MXDU. No rest for the weary. WOOSHAA!!!

That was the informative speech I gave Monday night in class. Got an A!

Additionally, open book test we took last Wednesday, got the highest grade in the class, a 98 (out of 100). The 2 I got wrong were done because I wasn’t paying attention to the fine print of the question. Being considered wrong because I was tricked was frustrating… but I still won.

It was really nice after my speech and during others’ intermissions to have people ask me questions about “Do webpages still work correctly?” and where do you get it, etc. We got the teacher to tell stories about computer happenings, like he sometimes does. He’s a good storyteller and has a lot of them since he used to be a cop, and a PR dude for some big company.

Anyway, I think I hopefully scored more converts and got a good grade doing it.