Today I finally caught up with the marvelousmrchip – the first time since his return to these shores. I dragged the poor lad along to the SymbianExpo, at Excel, to talk geek at various companies with interests in the mobile devices arena.
Highlights of the show included:
– Bitboys demoing their graphics accelerator and floundering around rather when I asked how I could get hold of one of their cores…
– completely bypassing Pete-falcons stall in their unmissable by-the-door location
– “Neil, do you know that guy with long hair just signing in over there?”, “Yeah, thats Romek” … “who I haven’t seen for, maybe, three years.”
– bluetooth control cars, utterly uncontrolable with P900s
– cute finnish girls talking technical about digital rights management (she wasn’t /that/ cute or /that/ technical, but the concept is good, and theres something captivating about Finnish girls)
– finding out that GeraCap are Teleca
We escaped to try to find some lunch in Excel, which, considering its size is more difficult than it should be. There are maybe 15 food places, of which two or three were open, one was being measured and the rest closed. So we headed back toward the station and found a pub sandwich before heading up to Golders Green for an impromptu board gaming session in the Youth Hostel followed by a curry. Rar.
During which time I blew out an interview I had vaguely arranged with a company in Waterloo – they’re trying to get me to commit to a contract following my current contract, so for around end of january or something. Should I really be talking to them yet, anyway?
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