Why Vegas Causes Me Brain Damage
Las Vegas is, in every way, a trap. The strip and everything on it has been designed to confused, defeat, and ultimately break down everyone so they give up on life and plop themselves into a chair in front of a slot machine. Last night I saw the Bill Gates keynote live, which was pretty cool, but it was also running at the same time as Digital Experience, a special press-only event that I wanted to attend. So, along with Stephen Hughes (and another guy who’s name I’m afraid to say I just can’t remember) we leave the keynote a bit early to get to the Digital Experience event. We were at the Venetian, and the event we were trying to get to was at Cesars Palace. Long story short, it took us around 90 minutes to get there, and we walked. We got lost, turned around, given bad directions, lacked good information from the event planners, and arrived around 9pm hungry, tired, and irritated. I only had a chance to speak with a few vendors, which really ticked me off - this was the ONE event I was really looking forward to because it was so great last year. This year it was much bigger, which made it harder to get through everything…I met a few people and made some good contacts with Sharpcast, Kensington, iGo, HTC, and others. There’s a similar event tonight, dubbed ShowStoppers, that I hope will be just as good - because I’m going to arrive on time and work the room like a PR master!
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January 10th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
While you’re at CES, I thought I’d ask…. have you heard anything at all about Live Anywhere for Windows Mobile? I believe there was some info or demo for it for Vista.
Just a bit worried that it seems to have fallen off the radar. Wasn’t it May ‘06 when it first announced, October ‘06 when it was last shown? And now (apparently) nothing @ CES… Wouldn’t some tight xbox/vista/mobile integration been at least a small bit of good news against the Apple onslaught?
January 11th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Live Anywhere for Windows Mobile…nope, I can’t say that I have.
January 29th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
[...] Jason Dunn and I even had more Casino fun walking to the Pepcom Digital Experience Event, by taking a “shortcut” through the Casino and Mall instead of walking another ¼ of a mile up the strip to the main entrance after ducking out of the keynote 15 minutes early to avoid the crowds. (We were able to finally coordinate meeting-up after several combination, phone, email, and text messages- isn’t mobile technology great!) Finding the way in or should I say way back outside on the other side of the Casino to the event would have been easier if there was proper signage, but I am sure it was the Casino’s doing not to deter their clients from gambling and attracting uninvited guests to the Pepcom event. [...]
July 31st, 2008 at 11:28 am
[...] Jason Dunn and I even had more Casino fun walking to the Pepcom Digital Experience Event, by taking a “shortcut” through the Casino and Mall instead of walking another ¼ of a mile up the strip to the main entrance after ducking out of the keynote 15 minutes early to avoid the crowds. (We were able to finally coordinate meeting-up after several combination, phone, email, and text messages- isn’t mobile technology great!) Finding the way in or should I say way back outside on the other side of the Casino to the event would have been easier if there was proper signage, but I am sure it was the Casino’s doing not to deter their clients from gambling and attracting uninvited guests to the Pepcom event. [...]