This morning, I attended the Stop Spamming Me!! tutorial, given by Matt Sergeant. I was readily impressed by the breadth of options discussed. Matt definitely knows what he's talking about from personal experience, and it shows.
I was scheduled to go to the mod_perl 2.0 tutorial in the afternoon, but the more I read the tutorial notes, the more I realized I wasn't going to understand the tutorial anyway. It was written more as a "mod_perl 2.0 for mod_perl 1.0 users" talk, which makes sense for a lot of people, but I'm not nearly "mondo mod_perl 1.0 guy" that I would be able to follow along. The class notes will make excellent reference material, but the tutorial itself would have lost me. Instead, Jeremy and I headed out to get some groceries and lunch.
Tonight, I sat at the SCO Moot Court session, and was fairly disappointed. I understand that they had trouble finding someone who could get behind the SCO position themselves, but they found someone who said they'd "Give it a go". What I came here hoping to see was an actual "Reasoned Debate" version of the SCO v. IBM trial. Instead what I got arguing the SCO position was someone who actually stands behind the IBM argument in their heart. The guy who "made" the SCO point did so mockingly, in a way that obviously would never be done in a real trial.
I wanted a "Moot Court", I got a "Kangaroo Court". Very disappointing. Admittedly, there was a lot of "give the audience what it wants" as well as "this is a six-month long trial, you can't do it 'right' in 45 minutes", though, so it's not really the "SCO Lawyer"'s fault at all, I guess.
Ah, well, more fun tomorrow...