Malek's Moorish Tales

Meanderings about life and technology

Fasten your black belt ...

Being on a "Microsoft Flight", as strange as it might seem, or, for corectness sake, let's say a European avaiation "microsoft Developer circle" charter flight, has been quite an experience ...

In London, it was an algorithmic challenge to find out what gate the plane was boarded on ... later, it was a guy hunging on the reactor, and the guy just fell down (I didn't see it, but all the spanish guys around me where talking about it, and assuring me it did happen) ... luckly, he didn't seem to hve endured any injuries ...

One hour too late, we where boarding the plane.  well, we borded, but that does'nt mean we departed ...

One more hour, and the plane took off ...

Even if the plane was far from being on time, it did deliver, at least on the first part of the flight, the promise of being a microsoft thing ... the very first movie showing (its an eleven hour flight), was the .net Show covering Direct-X managed ...

All of the movies that followed, even though they were regular movies, they were cartoonish/alien stuf ... which reminded me of that slide I usuallly use with young developers (academia, certain customers) that states, with no ambiguity, that the main influence of developers is StartTrek ... which slide I borrowed from my friend Sidi Ali Maalainein (Microsost North Africa-TS Team) .... I just hope there were some impressionable people on the flight ...

Another totally unordinary thing was the meeting room in the front of the plane ...

Once in LA, thee was of course the very serious immagration finger print and photo taking ... which will be compared to the finger print and photo when departing ... just to make sure my finger has not changed its print during the pdc ... Really makes you feel more secure ...

Then, LA ... it's LA with its high suckiness potential (The level of suckiness is a new standard by the anti-suckiness commission, finalized in hammamet, Tunisia on last June 25 ... it is based on measures of suckiness taken by three major independent source, ie: clemens, steven, goksin and I ... Well, I don't have clemens' and stev's measurement, but for myself, it is strange, but the level of suckniness is keeping quite low ... Great Hotel, huge room, nice drinks and food, and it is warmer than Casablanca ...

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