The fires around LA put the people over here in a very favoured position. "Hey, I got a ticket to the PDC and I even made it to get there". Fantasies of people trying to get buses from San Fransico to LA and Bill Gates doing his keynote by live-video. Or transmitting the presentations to all airports where thousands got stuck on their conference pilgrimage. It will not be that dramatical in reality but I wonder what tomorrow, when the conference realy starts, will be like.
This evening there was a book-party. I met all the Apress people and we had a very nice time. Apress has quite a row of titles in the PDC bookshop. We had a lot of nice chatter and it will realy be nice to be writing for them.
I was somewhat surprised by the bookshop's small amount of "The C# programming language" by Anders Hejlsberg, Scot Wiltamuth and Peter Golde. Next wednesday they will have a signing session. I have secured my copy, lets hope the shop will cart in new supplies by then, so you can get yours.