{"id":635,"date":"2007-10-02T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/02\/users-conference-japan-2007-more-notes-and-photos"},"modified":"2007-10-02T11:17:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T16:17:32","slug":"users-conference-japan-2007-more-notes-and-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/02\/users-conference-japan-2007-more-notes-and-photos","title":{"rendered":"Users Conference Japan 2007 – more notes and photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking photos is easy. Processing them is hard. By processing I mean, going through them, ditching ones that didn’t quite make the cut, and then uploading them. Note processing does not even mean editing them in The Gimp.<\/p>\n

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\nView from the Miraikan, looking towards Daiba, at the UC-J reception<\/em>
\n (view the other 31 photos<\/a> from that night)<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

The reception was amazing, heaps of people won gifts, and kudos again to the organisers. Drinking black vodka, aka Salmiakki that Monty brought, was definitely a treat for those who rocked up to the reception.<\/p>\n

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\nDinner at Kyotatsu (best viewed large<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

We went to Kyotatsu twice. Once with the extended MySQL Japanese Community<\/a>. And once with just mostly MySQLers<\/a>. We were introduced to crab bowels<\/em>, something I really like (and might be Kaj’s new favourite dish too) – if only I find it easily in Melbourne. Note that the community dinner was amazing – I think spread amongst three folk, there were no less than ten MySQL books written in Japanese by them. The collective intelligence on that table, was just astounding. Hacking while there<\/a>, was not a big deal for Tomita-san, famous for the MySQL\/Ruby<\/a> connector.<\/p>\n

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\nPouring sake (view it large<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

A truly different experience, as you pour more than required in the glass, and then drink from the square bottomed bit, like a coaster.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty much done with my Japanese photo-set, so look at the MySQL Users Conference Japan (UC-J) 2007<\/a> set. To see what you missed. To be there next year. To be at a similar event, in Santa Clara, notably the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: mysql<\/a>, tokyo<\/a>, japan<\/a>, uc-j<\/a>, uc-j2007<\/a>, photos<\/a>, miraikan<\/a>, sake<\/a>, community<\/a><\/p>\n

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