Random Notes from today’s Infosys Keynote at Oracle Conference

Please don’t call this liveblogging. I posted it after the fact.  But it’s not truly a blog post either; no editing.  We need a new term for this… how about… lazy writing.

Crowd pouring into the main hall; already seated near the back, probably going to be a pillar in the way; weird slideshow of blocks clicks across the screen, emitting all kinds of annoying sounds, sometimes overpowering the alt-pop music blaring.

From Oracle Open World ‘09

An asian guy with a Polo Jeans label stuck to the back of his fleece vest (does he know it’s there?) asks me to use his camera to take his picture; it’s pretty dark and the camera doesn’t flash; good enough, I guess.
2:46 wondering how much music the DJ prepped for the intro? 30 mins? An hour? 30 hours? Does he have a whole iPod filled with songs like “Sexy Boots?”
Also: this fucking clicking: how long before I am driven insane and must crack this netbook against the head of the Indian guy to my left?
Did he read that? Maybe better to act before he steels himself against my attack.

2:49 Note to poindexter with suit jacket and video cam 5 rows up; no one wants to see you; no one is looking for you. Sit the fuck down
I wonder what Franz Ferdinand understands about Middleware? Business Intelligence? As much as me, probably.
And still: the motherfucking clicking. It’s like a Poe story. Did I kill Mr Krabs and am now damned to be haunted by the last sound he made before my pliers pinched out his life?
And the music fades: 2:51.
I should join the crowd and use my iPhone to record the slideshow. Because you can never get PowerPoint off the web.
Ladies and gentlemen: some Oracle suit you’ve never heard of!
Announcing Roger Daltrey. Who definitely knows more about disaster recovery than I.
{mumble mumble play Who songs but some fun songs, too mumble}
Infosys. Pillar in way. Also, douchebags standing near pillar. Plus dude with huge head 3 rows up.
Infosys guy with heavy South Asian accent.