A little bit up a little down
Feb. 11th, 2005 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringI spent the day at the Microsoft Security Summit roadshow. Nice to get a few freebies, including WiFi and ice-creams in the MSDN Connections lounge, but I found the sessions fairly tedious. I might have dozed off at a couple of points, but at least I didn't begin snoring.
A pity. The last one was superb, full of interesting, alarming sessions delivered by people who knew their stuff. A lot of the sessions were not so much aimed at security, but rather at pushing info about the team features of Visual Studio 2005 (due at the end of Summer, which apparently means September/October) and SQL Server 2005. Not averse to this, but it wasn't quite what I needed.
Released a book there, but no joy so far. I've had really good luck at such events previously, including one that was wild released and caught four or five times and ended up in Texas, but probably not with this one.
Bolted down my lunch, found Tessa P at Flight Centre and forced money on her to pay for my April trip. She politely leafed through my journal and was good enough to review my seat allocations. I was particularly concerned at the MD-80 flight from DFW to San Francisco as there are some fairly cruddy seats near the back, and some good ones up the front where power points are available for economy passengers like me. It all looks good.
Article published and people are making nice noises about it. A little rocky to begin with but it ends well. I began to wonder how hard it would be to contact the young man in the final photo to get him a copy. If I could find what name he was touching, then maybe there was a next-of-kin who could identify the chap in the photograph. Or something.
I sent emails to a bunch of people running "The Wall" websites before I found one that offers searchable images of each panel. I blew up the two photographs I took, identified a particular configuration of line lengths - the names themselves are unreadable even at high resolution and magnification - and went looking in the early panels on the eastern side. Found the pattern on panel 4E, and the name he was touching on panel 5E. It seems to be the third name along.
What a disappointment. The name is "Robert E Lee". I doubt that this bloke is related.
My hearing has been steadily deteriorating and at the moment I can't hear much out of my right ear. That's because it's full of olive oil to soften the wax which has built up inside. It should break up and come out of its own accord over the next few days, but for now I'm deafer than I usually am.
Mundoo did a BX shop and included a keyring for me. I sent her $10 to cover the cost and postage and it arrived today, along with a couple of the new cat bookplates. Very pleased with it.
Off to Sydney and Gosford tomorrow. Will see Mum and the younger generation.
A pity. The last one was superb, full of interesting, alarming sessions delivered by people who knew their stuff. A lot of the sessions were not so much aimed at security, but rather at pushing info about the team features of Visual Studio 2005 (due at the end of Summer, which apparently means September/October) and SQL Server 2005. Not averse to this, but it wasn't quite what I needed.
Released a book there, but no joy so far. I've had really good luck at such events previously, including one that was wild released and caught four or five times and ended up in Texas, but probably not with this one.
Bolted down my lunch, found Tessa P at Flight Centre and forced money on her to pay for my April trip. She politely leafed through my journal and was good enough to review my seat allocations. I was particularly concerned at the MD-80 flight from DFW to San Francisco as there are some fairly cruddy seats near the back, and some good ones up the front where power points are available for economy passengers like me. It all looks good.
Article published and people are making nice noises about it. A little rocky to begin with but it ends well. I began to wonder how hard it would be to contact the young man in the final photo to get him a copy. If I could find what name he was touching, then maybe there was a next-of-kin who could identify the chap in the photograph. Or something.
I sent emails to a bunch of people running "The Wall" websites before I found one that offers searchable images of each panel. I blew up the two photographs I took, identified a particular configuration of line lengths - the names themselves are unreadable even at high resolution and magnification - and went looking in the early panels on the eastern side. Found the pattern on panel 4E, and the name he was touching on panel 5E. It seems to be the third name along.
What a disappointment. The name is "Robert E Lee". I doubt that this bloke is related.
My hearing has been steadily deteriorating and at the moment I can't hear much out of my right ear. That's because it's full of olive oil to soften the wax which has built up inside. It should break up and come out of its own accord over the next few days, but for now I'm deafer than I usually am.
Mundoo did a BX shop and included a keyring for me. I sent her $10 to cover the cost and postage and it arrived today, along with a couple of the new cat bookplates. Very pleased with it.
Off to Sydney and Gosford tomorrow. Will see Mum and the younger generation.
