Re: COMMON -Thoughts -Reply

[Paul <kdcma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

Were you one of the guys with the ladies that were table dancing at
Dick's? They actually stopped the band until they stopped dancing. It
was a riot! 

Common was great! Gerry Reid is an excellent speaker, no doubt. 

Paul

John Cirocco wrote:
> 
> Anyone notice most commons have a unique fashion statement?  This
> years was the Walldata Neck strap for the badges.
> 
> Great sessions for me were:
> 
> Funny Computer Stories
> Rick Barrera's Keynote
> Gerry Reid's Closing session
> Java for the AS/400-Overview
> AS/400 Internet Security
> ADSM/400-Client and Lan Backups
> ADSM/400 Made Easy
> What's Hot, New, and Different for AS/400 Backup/Recovery
> SQL/400 Performance Considerations
> OS/400 Enhanced Integration for Novell Netware
> 
> Best Expo booth:
> Infinium's Magic Show
> 
> Things that ticked me off:
> Many of my "key sessions" ran concurrently (not commons fault)
> Great sessions in small rooms, bad ones in large.
> Green Streak promoting Al Barsa's Friday session that I did not notice
> was moved to Tuesday until Friday Morning.
> 
> Probably my best conference because didn't feel I had a single new
> technology to try and learn about in 1 week.  Got to attend a HUGE
> number of varied sessions.  Also Loved the layout in Boston.  Jillian's
> and Dick's Last Resort were not bad either :)
> 
> Mental notes for next time:
> 1)  Make Sure I Stay In Conference Hotel.
> 2) Pre-arrainge to meet with folks instead of wandering around a CUDS
> looking at badges and names.
> 3) Don't rely on Hotel Wake up calls
> 4) Turn Pager OFF and give people Hotel # (then ignore blinking light on
> the phone)
> 
> John
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