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Our new phones, not quite an iPhone

This post is going to be called untitled. Today was an untitled day. Woke up early to head off to Scotland on Rails being held out at the university. Had no idea where I was going or where to get a taxi. But, I found a taxi and got there with relative ease. I got dropped off at the reception area of Pollock Hall, found out where the conference was being held and headed across campus. It was raining with a cold gusty wind. Found the room, thawed out and settled in. Then it began. There was talk of bindings and procs and blocks and closures. I felt like I was in a sea of pudding. No clue what these crazy people were on about. Turns out this is a conference for programmers wanting to switch to Ruby. Oops. I am not a programmer yet. LOL. So I was a very lost. Then came the whole “pick a team and work on this exercise”. Oh and “just think of this like a simple config model passing the method a block with a secret. Go ahead and use port 8800 and setup a something simple like a outer accessor.” Oh. Wait, what? WTF does that mean. So I did what any smart person in a pudding sea would do. Got the hell out of there.

I decided to try to walk back home from the university. So I just headed in the direction I thought was the correct one. Walked through downtown Edinburgh, grabbed a cuppa tea and miraculously found my way home in less than 25 min. It was a nice walk and I got see a lot of the city.

One downfall is the lack of mobile reception. My mobile broadband is worse than dial-up and it is killing me. I can get anything done. The internet cafe was a dump and we walked for 25min to find a bar with free wifi and we got there and could not get on it. WTF Edinburgh, what do you have against the internet?

Had a decent dinner and watched Lost and Heros.

Tomorrow it is supposed to snow.

*Sigh*