{"id":9230,"date":"2008-11-02T10:56:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2008-11-02T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"just-arrived-in-barcelona-and-registered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9230","title":{"rendered":"Just Arrived In Barcelona And Registered"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just arrived in Barcelona and was met by what felt like a hurricane.\u00a0 There doesn’t appear to be a dedicated bussing system in place this year between the airport and the conference centre.\u00a0 Instead I caught a taxi, not feeling like getting lost on a mass transport system for the day.\u00a0 Between the taxi and the conference centre I got SOAKED.\u00a0 I smell like wet jeans!\u00a0 If you’re reading this in the conference centre right now, that’s me you smell in the black IMTC 2008 baseball cap.<\/p>\n

I’ve registered and and I’m sitting in the arrivals hall, making the most of the free wifi access.\u00a0 I’m looking outside and I can see this place has either gotten battered by the weather or hasn’t been well maintained.\u00a0 My first impressions of the building: it’s a glorious tribute to 1980’s architecture \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

My advice to anyone coming here: bring waterproofs and don’t be an idiot like me and forget your international power socket adapter kits.\u00a0 I’m facing the prospect of trying to hunt some down – I’m not thinking that will go well.<\/p>\n

The hall opens tomorrow at 8 and we have between then and 2PM to play in the hands-on labs.\u00a0 Based on my experiences in Amsterdam, they’re usually crowded at the best of times.\u00a0 The keynote will be at 14:00 tomorrow (Monday).\u00a0 Hopefully the speakers will remember that this is an IT Pro crowd and not start telling us about the wonders of the newest generation of Visual Studio tools – 99.999% of us couldn’t care less.\u00a0 There’s other cooler things to talk about: Azure, Windows 7, BPOS, Hyper-V 2.0 and VMM 2008.<\/p>\n

I’ll hang around here a little while and let the rain die down.\u00a0 When my battery dies I’ll brave the elements and head into the city to find my hotel and maybe some food – I haven’t eaten in 14 hours and I’m starving<\/em>!!!!\u00a0 No, Aer Fungus, I won’t pay \u20ac9 for a dried up sausage and a slice of bacon swimming in fat.<\/p>\n

Damn I hate airports and airlines … at least I can enjoy the rest of the week until I face them again next Saturday.<\/p>\n

Anywho … my agenda for tomorrow as of now is:<\/p>\n