Yesterday, I arrived at San Francisco and stayed in probably the worst hotel in the downtown area. The room was fine and clean, but the whole building was falling apart and patched all over. It reminded me of the dark corners of the urban underworld that are portrayed in The Matrix. Also, it smelled. Real bad. Ok it reeked of moisture and rotten wood. Anyway, today I got up early and changed to the Pickwick Hotel (not too much of an improvement, but you’ve got to know that SFO isn’t a cheap place to stay).

8 am arrived and the guys at the Mascone Conference Center finally let us in. While in line, I came to the conclusion that I had lost my registration code. But no problem, there’s free wireless access! So I had to do the line two times, and in the second try I overheard two guys talking about IDEs. One of them was a Microsoft advocate and used Visual Studio. The other one used vim. Since it was too much of a temptation to resist, I decided to barge in the conversation with an “o yea! vim rocks!”. The registration process was painless and free t-shirts were given to everone.

Later on, breakfast. A fast bagel with jam and some fruit (green melon FTW!). Right now, a cherry juice and off to the inaugural conference.

I will be posting here as the whole thing develops so check in often!