Last week was LCA, wow. That was one serious week of conference. I must remember in future to spend more of the conference taking part in pissing contests, rather than drinking contests. My head …

Overall it was really cool. Highlights were, in no particular order:

• Tridge’s keynote, if I ever write anything 1% as useful and 1% as slick as Samba I’ll retire.
• Andrew’s keynote. It was great to hear his view on things, as ultimately my work goes to him. I think everyone agrees that he’s one of the best things that’s happend to Linux since, well maybe Linus?
• Keith Packard’s wobbly windows were cool although useless. I’d love to have that MacOS X spinning cube effect for changing virtual desktops.
• Martin’s rendition of Yesterday’s Knickers at the dinner, catchy tune that one!
• Andrew Baumann’s talk on dynamic update in K42. I didn’t realise he was hoping to do similar things in Linux, which would be awesome for lots of reasons.
• The “round table” at the very end with most of the main speakers. I’d suggest next year’s organisers think about making that an official event.

Lowlights:

• Having a cold all week.
• Missing Eben Moglen’s keynote, dang!
• The incredible gender inbalance, no really I’m serious. Not that it was suprising, but what’s going wrong? (And how are we ever going to meet chicks! ;D )