Barenaked Ladies Live!

I like listening to music as silence is sometimes unnerving; I listen to music in the car and most of the time when I work. However, I'm not a music connoisseur and haven't been to many concerts in my life. The few concerts I have been to, I really haven't enjoyed because the music is usually too loud and distorted and the artists are just not as polished as when in the studio. Last night, Apple surprised us by having the Barenaked Ladies at the WWDC bash. I have one of their CDs and we recently bought their kid's CD. I must say that the concert was excellent; I was able to understand the words, the music was good, and they were pretty funny when telling some jokes. It was a very welcome surprise. All I had with my was an iPhone, so my pictures aren't very good, but here is one anyway.

Unified ToDo List

I've struggled with managing my todo lists and have bounced back and forth among many different applications and even paper notebooks! Recently I decided to give 37signals's Backpack as there are a few Mac clients and the web interface is excellent. I'm quite impressed with it and their free account seems to meet my needs at the moment. Browsing it on the iPhone works quite well and now I have my todo lists wherever I go (as long as I have data coverage). Others probably have the same issue organizing todo lists; I hope that this current solution will work for awhile.

Annoying people at conferences

I sat down in a session today and the person next to me was eating raw carrots. She (yes there are a handful of women here) kept crunching and crunching. I moved seats, but it was still annoying. Do people lack common courtesy or do they not realize the are disturbing my peace?

In another session, the guy next to me started cracking his knuckles. If I smacked him, would he have stopped? Why should I have to tell people to be kind? I can handle typing at the conference because there is enough other noise to mask it; however, the knuckle cracking and the carrots are just plain annoying. I guess many of these people don't get out much and don't need to be courteous to others.

In my last session of the day, the lady next to me took off her shoe and started cracking her toes. To top it off, she banged on her keyboard at 100 miles per hour; the keyboards on the MacBooks are really annoying when people type fast. I could live with that (sort of), but cracking her toes almost put me over the edge.

Babar is staying above me

Babar is staying above me; I hear him stomping around. I was going to ask the front desk if they allowed animals in the rooms, but I'm not sure they'd get the joke. In most cases, heavy stompers don't realize that they're stomping, but what can I do about it? Going upstairs and confronting Babar would not be a good idea as I could get trampled.