BrainShare always starts with the Keynote; in Amsterdam it was no exception. The problem was that the keynote room and the tech lab are really part of the same larger room; so trying to finish getting the lab ready for the lab start of 1100 during the keynote was difficult. But I persevered and got everything working, even a local demo of an Apple iPod Touch syncing with the virtual system on my laptop.
IDM 4 had their big launch that evening. What they did was park a party boat that was like a floating disco next to the Passenger Terminal and everyone got on board and partied for an hour. Really; a bunch of geeks all together in a disco? There was Dutch appetizers, drinks, music, and even a dance floor (ratio of 100 to 1 is my guess). After an hour of getting people lubed up the boat cruised around the harbor for an hour before docking again by the show. By then some brave souls were dancing; not that they should have been dancing but I guess they felt they had to!
Each evening I tried to stay up until about midnight so that I would be good and tired and sleep mostly through the night and it worked! Standing around all day also helped; tiring. Only lab this day; sessions the other 2 days.
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