Ted speaks at HP World August 18 in San Francisco

I'll be at HP World Aug 16-18 in San Francisco and happy to get together for a beer or cup of coffee or whatever. I'm only in town for a little while so I'll probably have a frantic schedule! Tempted to blow off the conference and go visit wineries in Napa however :) I did blow off a conference in London once, never even showed up, and wisely went to Scotland to drink Scotch instead! Good move on my part!

I'm speaking Aug 18 - something about blogs. I uploaded my props - err, Power Point slides, yesterday. I assure you that won't constrain or restrict me! For those who don't know me, I'm very happy speaking without any slides or props at all. Hey, I'm happy and somewhat (in)famous for seizing the microphone and taking over even at places I don't belong. I've commandeered political speeches, financial seminars, and classes at Berkeley among others. Pay no attention to the man with the microphone - oh wait, that's me!!

It's interesting that HP loved my blog proposal, but didn't show much interest in my talks on Security (one security talk is officially an "alternate").

Looking forward to it. I haven't done an HP conference in about a decade. About a decade ago I used to speak at maybe a dozen tech conferences a year, including HP's, IBM's, OSF's, USENIX, etc.

Then I moved to Hong Kong, and after returning concentrated on speaking at conferences that actually pay money. Odd concept for some: work for money. And some of you thought you got money just for showing up? Not when you're a consultant.

PS: Glad to email a copy of my slides if you'd like. I may eventually post them on demop.com depending on HP's policies.