The nice thing about being famous…

Good grief.

There’s a guy here from Infoworld, and he wants to write an article about the event. He also wants a photo of “Howard Tayler presenting” for his article.

So… two minutes ago, just before the closing group panel, we did a POSED SHOT of me on stage in front of a slide deck. Good grief.

I joked with Jeannie, the Advisor coordinator and photographer…

“The nice thing about being famous is the obscene amounts of money I’m … wait a minute.”

–Howard

Rod from UNEP came up to me at the Advisor Summit this afternoon and asked whether or not I’d gotten to play disc golf yet. I asked him where he’d heard about THAT (the answer, by the way, is “not yet”), and he said that one of his staff back in the UK was a Schlock reader, and was wondering.

I have a strict policy. Anybody at a Novell event who comes up to me unsolicited and mentions that they’re a Schlock fan gets free artwork. In Rod’s case I had to make a slight exception – the picture of Schlock I drew for him was intended to be given to Simon.

Simon, if you’re reading this, you know you’ve got a gift coming back across the channel. Enjoy it, and go convert the rest of your co-workers. 🙂

For the record, I think the free-artwork-at-Novell-events rule has been put into play four times now. There is NOT a large area of overlap between my two lives.

–Howard

Weather in The Hague

If you’ve lived by the sea for any period of time, the weather we’re having here in The Hague is neither new nor surprising. The sea has phenomenal power, and can quickly go from placid to perilous.

Here are a couple of pictures taken from my hotel room — once the day I arrived, before the storm blew in, and once just a few minutes ago after the storm has had a day or so to wind itself back down a notch.
Show me the pictures, Daddy!

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