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"I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into the west, and remain a geek.

Ok so I did my talk, people listened, didn't throw up, didn't leave, clapped and asked a question or two. So I think it went ok. Then the session chair, and co-founder of the Apache Foundation, Lars Eilebrecht said it was a good presentation, so now I'm 'proper made up' :-)
Glad its over though. I just ploughed though it at made it with 5 mins to spare. I'll have to see if I can get the video... hopefully without paying the 500 quid it costs for all the videos.

Wil Wheaton doing the opening keynote speech. Talked about blogging, how he loves it and how it allowed him to not be an actor but start as a writer. How it allows freedom of thought and speech without influence of corporates. About how he started on yahoo geocities or something then moved to blogger. Wasn't too inspiring *shrug*

Quite a few unfortunately, I'm hoping its not going to detract too much from being here at ApacheCon, I'm sure it wont. Its only the tutorial days to start with but already I'm happy with the way the conference is panning out.

So, I get here and the place is a building site, as talked about the apachCon grande chief thing whatsit ken coar on his blog.

Looks like there is a good package of goodies and freebies in the ApacheCon attendees pack - blogged in Ted Leung on the air : Hackathon or Packathon

I'm all here and checked in and unpacked.
Found Andre as soon as I walked into reception, then I got put in this room at the back of the complex.

As mentioned before I'm going to talk at ApacheCon US 2004. So I'm just finishing packing, ready to leave at 5:45am. I think I have everything. So I thought I'd blog the lot. Nice document repository to start with on here, makes me keep what I've worked on at least.

So after about the 5th attempt, and 4th complete redraft, I finally submitted my talk to the planners of ApacheCon TU17 - Migrating the BBC website to Apache 2, and have a speaker logo on the cight.com homepage for now anyways.

I'm talking at apacheCon this year, did I say that already ?? oh well :-) I got my picture done by my friend Will, turned out not bad, except my forehead looks a bit klingon, ApacheCon US 2004: Speaker List
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