And then it was all over

Yes folks. @media 2006 is all over. Except for the year thing, everything else really was doubled. Double the people. Double the speakers. Double the number of chairs (no sitting on the floor this time!)

I made a list of a couple of things to make sure I did. Well how did I do?

• Take photos – Check. I’ll upload as I get a chance, but in the meantime their are already quite a few over on the atmedia flickr tag
• More SubEthaEdit note taking – With the problems with the wi-fi this was held to a single session on WCAG 2.0 with Steve and Ben
• Eat food (You know who I’m talking about) – Again score one. Some photos from a nice mexican place on the Thursday with Olly and Adam
• Keep updating the syndicator thing – Again wi-fi problems but I did it each night anyhow. 38 new posts over the few days, and I need to add a few more sites. I do keep wondering about just using Technorati anyhow?
• Watch the football (sorry, it is the World Cup) – I wont talk about that. Until I switched from drinking Corona to Asashi it was a little dull.

Apart from that I got up to the usual geekery. Met lots of people. Drank a few beers. Went to a few talks and panels.

I wandered around with a whole host of people. I’d try and name drop but I’d miss someone and make them feel bad. Well, ok, probably not but their you go.

The evening of the first night of the conference was particularly amusing. Wetherspoons for food, a short rant with PPK and James about (what else) Javascript and then spending the evening under the stars with Patrick, Andy and a few others was, er, entertaining? slightly disturbing? bordering on stalking? All of those and more.

Their is simply too much to say and too little time. Which sort of explains the lack of details about the sessions and my take on them. I’ll probably post more about how I think the social side of things really is an integral part of these do’s, and how Molly really does deserve some sort of medal, and, well, you get the slighty hyper idea. And with my wi-fi hopefully working at home by now keep your readers peeled for both irreverant (sorry – irrelevant) banter and hopefully a couple of interesting insights and highlights.

More name dropping next time. Promise. Oh, and leave a comment if I said hi, it’s always a pleasure guys.