I have this observation to
/I have this observation to make: Tim O'Reilly is a fucking genius.
Beth is a blogging machine,
/Beth is a blogging machine, I can see her about 8 feet from me, typing quickly on her tablet PC. She's got some great live coverage of Gnomedex, so if you're wondering what's going on here, check out her site.
John C. Dvorak is on
/John C. Dvorak is on now: "I'd use a Mac [like Tim O'Reilly] but I can't afford one."
Okay, I think I got
/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
/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.
