{"id":618,"date":"2007-09-11T07:18:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/11\/japan-uc-j-day-1"},"modified":"2007-09-11T07:18:18","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T12:18:18","slug":"japan-uc-j-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/11\/japan-uc-j-day-1","title":{"rendered":"Japan – UC-j day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I haven’t actually written about my amazing Japan trip. Arrived late on Saturday night, spent the whole of Sunday doing tourist-y stuff, visited MySQL KK on Monday, had an amazing dinner later with lots of MySQLers, and today, Tuesday is the first day of the users conference<\/a>. And boy was it fun!<\/p>\n

Larry-san spoke Japanese in the keynote introduction, and boy was it amazing. I absolutely loved the honesty in Yukihiro “Mats” Matsumoto’s talk. It was even funnier that while he spoke Japanese, and people laughed at his jokes, it took a while for the simultaneous translators to catch up with English, and then we’d have delayed laughter :)<\/p>\n

I gave my talk today, and was pretty pleased with the attendance. My 35 slides were delivered in a mere 50 minutes, and at parts I was worried I might be going too fast for the simultaneous translators. Then I’d slow down, but feel like falling asleep while standing, so felt the tone needed to be picked up. I didn’t get up-front questions, but at least I got approached after<\/i> the talk. Guess that’s fine. Met a couple of Aussies (who recognised that I must be from Melbourne\/Sydney because of my Crumpler!).<\/p>\n

Lunch was interesting. We like to normally disperse, and spread out (the usual rule is that there should only be one MySQLer per table). The moment I sat down, two ladies decided to move, and the others on the table ate quietly, and quickly, and just disappeared as well! Sigh. I turned around, and noticed Stewart sitting alone as well. Seemed a tad odd.<\/p>\n

Line of the day: “green tea is not alcohol!” That came later at dinner, which again, was amazing (heaps of sushi). I’ve found a new favourite sushi dish – crab bowels. Well, tomorrow is another great action packed day, and I think I might focus on the camera and documenting it more…<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: mysql uc-j uc-j2007 japan tokyo culture<\/a><\/p>\n

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