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November 22, 2006
Desperately Seeking Wifi Access Point
As Stephen said, we bumped into each other at the Microsoft Ready Summit '06 held at Crown Towers (the Melbourne sessions). It was a worthwhile experience unlike some of the more recent MS events (put that in your eval sheet). What makes a Microsoft event worthwhile. Lucidity in communication and some honest rehearsing of materials to present. More importantly, an understanding of how to pace the presentation to the audience and some heartfelt insights yourself dhwnd.
The first thing that was interesting (for me) was this time, the organising people had sent out barcodes for attendee attendance via web and email. And a day or two before, they again sent barcodes, this time as graphics in mobile phone SMS. I wanted to see whether that would work with the scanners there. Unfortunately, the young fellow at the event decided to type in the attendance registration number manually rather than use his scanner.
The next thing was, geek-males and geek-females were all over the place. You would had not seen so many O2 Atoms, Blackberrys. Stephen was surfing the rooms with his Nokia trying to latch on to a free Wifi Access Point. So was I - I had to be available for fix-this with clients. With so many people willing to deprecate one day of work or business $$$ to attend the event - some party should have offered free or impromptu paid Wifi access, instead of the free baseball cap and tee shirt?
Maybe Microsoft thought that we would welcome a break or release from our daily grind. IT geeks + end users / clients = it don't work that way. Why do you think we carry mobile phone / pda / GPS / notebooks with us? Like I really want 2.7kg of bling in a notebook.? No way!
Posted by Anandasim at November 22, 2006 12:27 PM
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Surprisingly, as I noted to you during one of the breaks that I found a Telstra Hotspot. Later at the end of the day I saw a little sign in the corner of the foyer "Crown offers Telstra Hotspot WiFi Access etc etc".
Thank goodness I was not 'that' keen at this level of pricing.
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at November 24, 2006 08:57 PM