Okay, I think I got

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Okay, I think I got my wireless issues sorted out now. There are about a dozen random ad-hoc wi-fi networks, and my machine was jumping between them all, which kept disconnecting me. I made my machine a little less aggressive now, and it seems to have stabilized. This Google stuff is fascinating, the amount of thought that goes into even their ad placement is really impressive. They use off the shelf PC hardware for their datacenters, they showed us some funny pictures of the first Google center at Stanford, it looks like my junk room, with an assortment of old PCs. Their router handles 256Gbps of traffic!

The Wi-Fi is a bit

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The Wi-Fi is a bit unstable, so I'll try to get this sent out before it kicks me offline again, but so far I'm having a good time. I went to the first breakout session today with Kyle Bennett from HardOCP.com, who really knows his stuff when it comes to hardware. Nelson Minar from Google is speaking now, showing us how Google works behind the scenes, it's pretty fascinating stuff.

Okay, I'm at the convention

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Okay, I'm at the convention center, and I have the Wi-Fi up and running. It's even 802.11g, so I'm connected at 36 Mbps. If you're wondering which geek I am, I'm the one in the black t-shirt that says "It must be user error". :) Thanks to Eric Sink, one of our speakers today, for helping me get online. He' s also sharing his little table with me and my laptop.

For breakfast, I wound up at Burger King, a few blocks south of the Hotel, only $2.17 for a sausage biscuit and milk, much more reasonable than the $2 toast at the Savery.

I think I'm the first

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I think I'm the first Gnomedex blogger awake today, no one else seems to have updated yet. That's probably because I didn't stay up until the wee hours like everyone else. I've got a little more bandwidth now, as I've bypassed the lamp/phonejack thing, and increased to 34K. Unfortunately, I somehow forgot or lost the cell phone cable for my computer, so that's not going to be an option, but I should have Wi-Fi once I get over to the convention center. Now comes the quest for food, I'm not getting room service, it's $1.95 for TOAST!