First day at conference

Conference is very exciting. Yesterday's sessions were not vastly great - one was a sales pitch for a product, and the other was fairly technical on the DLHE survey, which I don't have a hand in running. But what's great is being around a load of other people who do the same work you do, and being able to have totally random conversations but also talk about work stuff without feeling like you're imposing on others for "talking shop". Since I get most of my ideas sorted out in my head by bouncing them off other people, it's a great atmosphere to be in.

And because of the wiki, I already knew a few names so I had no trouble finding people to talk to. Just for that it's worth having done it. Which is just as well, because I have a feeling that with all the good will in the world it will die a death after the conference - I can't see people signing up after the conference even if we do have some of the presenters updating their pages. We'll see.

One gripe: a conference about the impact of technology, and you don't arrange for conferece-goers to have wi-fi access in the conference areas?