Notes from the Scott McNealy Keynote. May have errors etc…

Notes from the “Using NetBeans for Rich Desktop Clients” session. *Very* little content in this session, most disappointing.

Notes on the java desktop track overview session. Warning: completely unchecked, full of typos and may not make sense. Will review eventually.

Had the keynote by Jonathan Swartz (spelling is wrong, deal with it :P) this morning. Very marketing oriented but interesting none-the-less. He predicts that the car industry will be the next place Java technology really takes off (mobile phones being the current boom) and he’s quite probably right but I think it will take a long time for those features to filter down into the general populace rather than just being in BMW’s.

Got some first pictures of the San Francisco trip to show off. More images in the full version…

“On one occasion, Ms. (Lisa) Foster (Thompson’s court reporter for 15 years), saw Judge Thompson holding his penis up and shaving underneath it with a disposable razor while on the bench,” the petition reads. Say no more, say no more! Via Reuters Oddly Enough.

Well I’ve spent the past four hours sorting through the sessions for JavaOne and picking out the things I’d like to attend. I’m beginning to think I should have just stayed on the Australian timezone as I have BOF sessions until 11:30pm or midnight every night. That’s before I factor in trying to catch up with Apache people and other groups at informal events. There are a few events in my schedule that I’ll probably wind up missing depending on how interesting the discussions I happen to be in at the time are and how much time I want to spend just wandering around the various pods.

I’m currently sitting in the StarBucks just down the road from my hotel happily surfing the web with T-Mobile. Pretty cool. Shame my hotel didn’t wind up having internet but I think I prefer taking a walk down the road and sitting in starbucks that sitting in my little hotel room all the time anyway. Most of today was spent touring around San Francisco, I seem to have brought good weather over from Australia as it was a perfect day – clear blue skys, sunny and no fog.

Seriously, catch the bus. Flying in or around America is no longer a feasible proposition. There are thousands of people milling around the front entrance trying to work out which queue to get in and where the hell the end of that queue is. Then there’s a few hundred police, customs officials and various other authority figures milling around looking for anyone who looks suspicious (which is everyone if you ask me).

Sun Thing Looking out the window at the moment I can see a glimpse of orange light indicating the sun is somewhere low on the horizon. I just can’t decide if it’s sun rise or sun set. It’s 10:30PM in Los Angeles and 3:30PM in Brisbane, I’m somewhere in between so I guess it must be a sun set. The trouble is I’ll arrive in Los Angeles at 7am so there’d need to be a sun rise in there somewhere and I get the impression this might be it.

You have to be insane I’ve been happily sitting around on the only chair in this airport that’s anywhere near a powerpoint happily passing time, airport security has set up a barricade just next to me and are prechecking passports and boarding passes before people get to the boarding gate. I swear the entire plane is full of primary school children from the US who are here on some young ambassador program.

So I’m multiple thousand feet in the air relying on a hunk of metal to keep me up here – you’d really want to have some confidence in said hunk of metal. Sadly, this particular hunk of metal seems to be doing everything possible to instill fear, short of actually falling out of the sky. Since I’m sitting in the emergency exit isle, there’s two seats for the crew in front of me which have a phone between them so that the crew can communicate easily.