I spoke at the Ruby Hoedown last weekend and had a blast. I didn't get to attend much of the conference due to my travel. However, that talk was the last time my shiny new MacBook Pro would boot!
It had been locking up with an increasing frequency... it locked up when I took it to the front of the room to start speaking. What timing! It took nearly 10 minutes to reboot.... during that time, I got to entertain the audience with just my wit. (Pity the audience.)
Fortunately I had also brought along some candy. I like to throw candy into an audience at random from time to time. It keeps everyone alert and laughing. And on this occasion, it was perfect.
My Choice of Candy
Jared and His Nerds
Every shot of me 'talking' is actually me throwing candy at people. :) Here's one. And here's another.
I've got to admit that a lot of the Ruby Hoedown Flickr shots are people taking pictures of each other... taking pictures of each other... with iPhones. There's some kind of Freudian statement in there... ;)
Back to the MacBook Pro. Cisco had provided me with a brand new, sealed in the box MacBook Pro. The first had a broken FireWire port. This one (my second) had a disk that seems to freeze when the machine gets hot. So I'm on my third! (When you open three MBPs in a week, the packaging loses a bit of it's magic.)
So far the third box seems to be working great. I left it on all night and it's still humming along. Third time's the charm? :)
All this and I have a cold too... I've got several half written blog entries cued up, but I've got to get caught up on other fronts first. Staging your machine three times in two weeks tends to take up all the spare time in my evenings.
