Ken Vleminckx

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Cebit 2005

On the 13th of March 2005 we (Ken, Erik and me) went to Cebit in Hannover.
The departure was planned on 4 o'clock in the morning (or do I need to say saturday night ;-)), but somebody's mobile phone/alarm was not working, so we started our trip around 4:50.

We arrived at Cebit (the Messe) after approx. 5 hours of driving and talking about WOW. Conclusion of our talk: "Paladins are the mounts of gnomes and a level 16 gnome is more powerful then a level 25 paladin."
Parking was 6 euros for a dirty place somewhere in the woods near the Messe.

We checked the Cebit map to see what we will visit. No financial stuff, so we went for technology, communication and future stuff.

Communication was networking, wireless stuff, mobile phones, mobile phones, batteries, mobile phones, ....
The technology hall was 80% of the time occupied by, the new hype, .... MP3 players  and MP3 and even more MP3 players and more and...
I think we have seen 1 million different MP3 players.
There was also one big gaming hall (sponsored by samsung and ATI). Where they took a picture of the three of us in front of some strange dudes from star trek, "I think".

 

Comments

admin said:

Nice!!

Indeed, you are absolutly right, somethings wrong with the ITC landscape, very few new stuff is on the horizon. After the 4the MP3 player you'va had it and you start wondering if your investement in time and money was well worth the Messe of this year.

Anyway, the three of us had a good time, and that's what matters, ain't it!

BTW, The dudes are from stargate

# March 22, 2005 10:29 PM

admin said:

My appologies for not making it guys ... at around 4:30 i was crawling into my refrigerator looking for anything (and i mean anything) edible. Hangover lasted until 22:00... enjoyed the ride. better next time ... :-(
# March 22, 2005 10:53 PM
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