Just as I was going to move back to Gallery2, PicasaWeb extended the free space to 1GB (and counting). So, i could upload more pictures from GDC and San Francisco downtown around the GDC.

The second day was again about lectures. I started off with the Physics for Games Programmers tutorial, but quickly realized that it was going to be pretty basic, so I switched to Large-scale Engineering for Online and Offline Games. It was an interesting lecture, on how to distribute and organize workforces, in the same office or spread around branches.
What I didn't like much was some guy from Unreal, talking about pair programming as a way to get programmers to work with much less distractions. Nice.. for you !!!  read more »

2007/03/04-10 - San Francisco, GDC

..I dunno.. lots of lectures, technical lectures are boring. Agile Development was funny.. It's morning and I've been up all day mostly trying to sort out picture dates. Of course I forgot to change the camera clock as I arrived. Then I found some software that supposedly was going to help me shift time in the EXIF data, but it more or less fucked up things. Nice going.. it seems like most of the software out there sucks and one just needs to write his own to get things right ! For note taking I've been using TiddlyWiki ..it's very simple, just great, using a decent theme and plugins (even supports math notation through MathML) ...forget MediaWiki, Apache, MySQL.. fack those, I spent countless hours trying to run them on my PC.. die complex crap !! we try to zzzzzzzz ! poof

Italiano in fondo. Italian version comes later.

English

I arrived today at 7:48... so said the airplane pilot.

Totally ignoring the suggestion from my company (I didn't remember that at all.. possibly because all the notes where in Japanese), instead of going to register for the GDC, I went to sleep. I went to sleep at around 12, after some internetting from the hotel and woke up at 5pm when a coworker called me.

The very first thing I noticed about San Francisco is the homeless people. There is a lot of them and they are all black.

This is not a discriminatory remark, it's only a remark. I remember Michael Moore claiming that you can't find blacks in California... sure you can !!

At 7pm I had a company dinner in Chinatown at the Chinatown Restaurant, nonetheless. The restaurant was the more or less opposite of Japan. The waiters didn't look like waiters but rather a couple of Chinese guys (possibly closer to the owners) dressing with a shirt with their sleeves rolled up. One of them actually managed to throw the "wet towels" to a couple of my coworkers, because of the distance.  read more »