Concern

Dear lazyweb,

Something I didn’t get a chance to do at JavaOne this year was exchange business cards with the people I met, simply because I haven’t bothered to get any made at work. I don’t really want corporate business cards, either, and want to roll my own.

Do any of you do this? If so, who do you go to? Doing some simple searching on the subject produces some damnably lame results, given what I’m looking for.

I’d like to have cards that are black on the front (the back should be white, so you can write on it) and the lettering would be bright green. Raised ink would be neat. If that’s too difficult to get done, simple white with one or two color lettering (with a font that I choose) would suffice.

Any ideas?

If any conference attendees get a little sick of Java by Friday, we can head to Fort Mason for Steven Johnson’s seminar about long-term thinking.

I’ve gone to a couple of these talks, and they’re usually highly stimulating. I’m planning on going to this one.

Since it runs as root, and uses up a constant, large, and annoying amount of CPU, RAM, and disk bandwidth, I must bid it goodbye. I lost probably an hour’s worth of work altogether today, just waiting for spinning beachballs to stop while the thing was running.

Welcome back, Quicksilver.

Some of us had dinner in San Francisco on Saturday, with Tom, Tom F., Mark, Petri, and Dalibor. From Sun there was Tom M., Rich, Onno, and Peter. Erinn from Debian was there, and obtained the reservation, as well as Jacob. I’ve had Jacob listed as a Flickr contact for a long time, it turns out; I didn’t recognize him at the time.

We had a great dinner, and it was great to finally meet everyone. We didn’t get enough of a chance to talk, but I’m sure this week we can make up for that.

After dinner we took a tour of an office. I won’t say what office or whose, but it was much more bizarre and interesting than you might think (it’s on/adjacent to Jessie street in San Francisco, which name has a special meaning for me).

It’s strange when a number of things converge at once. This is going to be a fun week.