Monday, April 11, 2005
Rested up from Vancouver
I didn't really have much to say last week while I was attending the Cisco Partner Summit -- hence only one post all week. When I returned from the trip, I was beat. While I was no longer on Eastern Standard Time, I had also not quite made the transition to Pacific Standard Time. I was somewhere in between. My best guess is I was on Mountain Standard Time, but I think I'm about back to normal (whatever normal is).
Two things really stood out for me on the Vancouver trip. The first is that I now own my first Apple product. Specifically, it's a 512MB iPod Shuffle. The look on Logan's face on Saturday when we met to see Sin City was priceless, although I didn't really understand what he was so baffled about at first. He later explained that he never expected me to be the type to own anything by Apple. ... Maybe I shouldn't tell him I'm thinking of migrating to an iBook the next time I buy a laptop. ;)
Anyway, the iPod Shuffle is really cool. As a reward for Cisco Partner Summit attendees who filled out their feedback forms, Cisco put a shiny new iPod Shuffle in their hands. Thankfully, that included media. I've wanted an MP3 player for some time, but I could never justify the cost to myself. I'm enough of a whore that I would never turn down a free gadget from a tech vendor. My journalism instructors would be so disappointed in me.
The second thing that stood out as a highlight of the event was that I met an interesting Fredicton-based journalist named George Butters. We met on the Monday night at the Canadian media/analyst dinner and chatted a fair bit. George had to be the most interesting person I met at the event. He's been a journalist for a long time, and he's done his time in broadcast and print. However, he also takes on all sorts of non-journalism-related projects. One of his current projects is with an animation company called Wetsand Animation. I think I might have riddled him with questions. Damn that animation fanboy in me!
George also runs a site called Smartypants.com. That has to be one the coolest domain names ever registered. The site is mostly made up of tech articles (some reprinted) and tech tips right now.
Two things really stood out for me on the Vancouver trip. The first is that I now own my first Apple product. Specifically, it's a 512MB iPod Shuffle. The look on Logan's face on Saturday when we met to see Sin City was priceless, although I didn't really understand what he was so baffled about at first. He later explained that he never expected me to be the type to own anything by Apple. ... Maybe I shouldn't tell him I'm thinking of migrating to an iBook the next time I buy a laptop. ;)
Anyway, the iPod Shuffle is really cool. As a reward for Cisco Partner Summit attendees who filled out their feedback forms, Cisco put a shiny new iPod Shuffle in their hands. Thankfully, that included media. I've wanted an MP3 player for some time, but I could never justify the cost to myself. I'm enough of a whore that I would never turn down a free gadget from a tech vendor. My journalism instructors would be so disappointed in me.
The second thing that stood out as a highlight of the event was that I met an interesting Fredicton-based journalist named George Butters. We met on the Monday night at the Canadian media/analyst dinner and chatted a fair bit. George had to be the most interesting person I met at the event. He's been a journalist for a long time, and he's done his time in broadcast and print. However, he also takes on all sorts of non-journalism-related projects. One of his current projects is with an animation company called Wetsand Animation. I think I might have riddled him with questions. Damn that animation fanboy in me!
George also runs a site called Smartypants.com. That has to be one the coolest domain names ever registered. The site is mostly made up of tech articles (some reprinted) and tech tips right now.
// posted by Chris @ 9:43 AM 
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