The morning started off with a quite dry presentation by Kurt D. Zeilenga of OpenLDAP fame who works for ISODE. He talked about standardizations (IETF, ISO, ITU-T); it wasn't uninteresting, but as I said, a bit dry.
Ludovic Poitou came from Grenoble and gave a very good presentation on the current status of OpenDS titled OpenDS: not just yet another LDAP server!.
After a very bland lunch, I'm very excited to listen to Howard Chu, whom I spoke to shortly. Even though he looks a bit jet-lagged, I'm greatly looking forward to his OpenLDAP 2.4 highlights.
My two navigators directed me to Robinson College, and I'm now enjoying a cup of brew before the Exim sessions with Philip Hazel start.
Weather here in Cambridge is superbe and dry!
Looking forward to this.
Señora Mens has condescended to accept a BlackBerry Curve as a replacement for an aging Nokia 62–something.
Upon offering to transfer her mobile phone's address book to the new device (I'd be using SyncML naturally) she said I shouldn't bother: she'd be willing to enter all contact information manually again.
WTF?
I've heard that before. Why is it that (some) women don't mind spending hours doing tedious stupid work like re–entering contact information onto a new mobile device, whereas (some) men use any means to accomplish the same task "electrically" ?
(Even if it takes (some) men the better part of six weeks to do… 
)
A picture is worth more than 1000 words. This picture is lying: it took a great deal longer.
IMHO it hasn't improved since release 5. In fact the IMAP client in Notes remains almost useless.
Ich habe heute Morgen versucht den hiesigen Geschaeftskunden T-Punkt zu erreichen. Warteschleife gefolgt von Anrufbeantworter. Name und Anliegen hinterlassen. Keinen Rueckruf.
Mail an den Geschaeftskundenvertrieb mit der Bitte um Ueberpruefung ob im o.g. T-Dingens ein BlackBerry Curve zur Ansicht steht. Nette Antwort vom GK-Vertrieb:
gern möchten wir Ihnen weiter helfen. Leider ist es uns auch nach 3 Versuchen nicht gelungen, persönlichen Kontakt zum T-Punkt herzustellen. Wir haben daher per Nachricht um Rückruf zu Ihnen gebeten
Es trifft uns also alle.
Update: Der Anruf kam dann doch. Aufgrund der Gewaehlten Nummer weiss ich, dass es wg. des GK-Vertriebs ist.
Man with American accent: "are you Irish?"
She with very strong Eastern European accent: "no, I'm from Lithuania"
Man: "oh, sorry. I'm not very good with accents."
The mad …...man: "Has anyone used Vista? I used it for two months and it is shit!"
