Phew! That was one busy adventure to the other side of this wide brown land (It is wide, and brown, but mainly wide) TUF 2005 in Perth was the launching ground for our new product, ice. Stilly and I were presenting the keynote, which was based around showing off ice, and talking about collaboration and other reasons why a bunch of customers might want to buy it. In a stroke of genius\insanity, we decided to let the audience pick the demonstration platform based on random outcomes - we built a giant cardboard die with various operating systems and platforms written on each side - then we'd let a volunteer from the audience roll the dice(die?) to determine which platform we should do our demo on. ice (the italics belong to the marketing department) works on any platform, so we were pretty confident that we would be okay. But, what I hadn't counted on (those italics are mine), was my crummy laptop (which was acting as the server) deciding that it would be a good idea to hibernat...
Thats funny,
ReplyDeleteI saw something similar in a paddock from a plane landing in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. I reckon it might have been bigger.
Hey I got some modicum of ribald hilarity from it.
Grae
I hope that the "certain student" wasnt me you were mentioning from high school, the only thing I ever wrote was " Leanne Baitup has hairy eyebrows" on the toilet door ( children are cruel).
ReplyDeleteI find your ramblings strangely interesting, may tune in again.
You have way tooooo much time.
Heidi ( from high school)