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SXSW: Day one

  • Posted on: March 10, 2006
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Yesterday's travelling sucked. Just long and really boring. Almost as bad as the previous day. When travelling to Heathrow, a train in front of mine managed to fall off the rails or trip over a leaf or something. Well, the journey time to London Heathrow from Cardiff ended up being over 6 hours. Rubbish.

The highlights of yesterdays trip was passing the Ice Sheets over Greenland, which was awesome, and passing a very active thunderstorm somewhere over the middle of the US.

I arrived in Austin last night at about 9pm (3am UK time) following a shared mini bus ride with Zach Inglis, who I met at Washington Airport passport queue. When I arrived, needless to say, I was a little jet-lagged but I still managed to unpack and get myself sorted. At about 11pm I finally succumbed only to awake two hours later. Lots of dosing later and at around 5.30 am I thought I may as well get up and begin my first day in Austin.

I met up with Andy for breakfast at the sociable hour of 6.30am. After a while we headed over to the conference centre to get all registered and stuff where we bumped in Faruk and Zach. Off for lunch in the baking temperature - which is easily 30c presently - for a slap up Mexican feed at a quant little cafe where we had to walk through the kitchens to get a table. Nice grub though.

Tomorrow, at 10am, I'll be sitting on the Traditional Design and New Technology panel at 10am - One of six panels to kick this year's conference off to a, hopefully, good start. If you're in Austin, please come along and say hello.

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That Mexican really was good wasn’t it?

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Zach
Fri 10th Mar 2006
at 11:00 pm

So which Mexican resturant did you go to?

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Andrew Hamann
Fri 10th Mar 2006
at 11:10 pm

Nice to have (briefly) met you Mark; maybe we’ll be able to chat a bit more later in the week.

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Steve Marshall
Sat 11th Mar 2006
at 12:26 am

Zach: Yeah it was pretty good although the salsa did bring me tears!

Andrew: Haven’t the foggiest I’m afraid! It was too hot and I was too hungry to take notice of where Andy was taking us. I think it was on Congress near the bridge. A small cafe like place.

Steve: And you Steve, hopefully we can share a beer over the coming week. :)

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Mark Boulton
Sat 11th Mar 2006
at 3:31 am

Can’t wait to see your panel first thing tomorrow. I’d better get some sleep first.

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Wilson Miner
Sat 11th Mar 2006
at 6:21 am

I’m very interested in your Traditional Design and New Technology panel from today. I hope it is interesting for everbody in Austin and you will get some new inpiration.

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Heiko
Sat 11th Mar 2006
at 9:27 am

Hi Mark, hope it goes well today mate.

Look forward to reading more ?

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Graham Sanders
Sat 11th Mar 2006
at 9:50 am

That storm was over Ohio I know, it was loud.

Have fun.

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Nathan
Sat 11th Mar 2006
at 4:42 pm

That Mexican restaurant would have been < a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clagnut/8623338/">Las Manitas</a> aka the Avenue Cafe.

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Richard Rutter
Thu 16th Mar 2006
at 12:03 pm

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