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I'm at WWDC 2005

It's less than an hour until Steve Job's keynote and the place is buzzing. There is a HUGE line to get into the keynote. Its like they released Star Wars Episode 7 or there was a release of The Hobbit. Its big.

I don't really enjoy waiting in lines, so I thought I'd get a little blogging done. Apple set up some tables with power strips, ethernet connections and also provided us with some breakfast. So I'm blogging in style...

WWDC is going to be completely different blog-wise from EclipseCon. EclipseCon is all about openness. All the sessions were released under the Eclipse Public License. WWDC on the other hand is all about confidentiality, except for The Keynote. It doesn't affect the attendee in any way, except you won't see too much on my blog about what happens here at WWDC. I'll probably blog about people I've met or at least have seen.

Speaking of which, I saw Aaron Hillegass of Big Nerd Ranch with his trademark cowboy hat. I almost came sporting my Eclipse cap, but I thought I'd save it for later. I remember at EclipseCon, there was Ed of Cisco who was sporting purple fuzzy slippers. We all thought: who is that guy? And why is he in his pajamas? Well I asked him after the scripting languages BOF and he explained that it helps people identify him and remember him. Yup. It sure does. :)

Intel... that's the big rumor right now. There's TV cameras in front of the Moscone Center. I woke up this morning to CNBC reporting the story, saying that IBM would be fine because they have all the game console chip business (which I talked about in my PowerPC Inside post.) We'll see... I'm still personally holding out for PowerBook G5s, but I guess I'm an optimist.