OSCON 2009: Day Zero, Part Two
I made it to my hotel, got settled in, and headed right next door to the OSCON registration area. I got my badge and bag of goodies. The bag this year is not as good as the ones from the past two years, but that’s OK. It’s another bag with the name of my favorite publisher on it.
The “swag in the bag” was mainly advertisements from the various vendors. I leafed through them and trashed most of them. The past two years, I kept most of the adverts and ended up trashing them at home. No sense in carrying them around or flying them back home when they’ll just end up in the same place.
The items I did keep from the bag were two magazines, a Think Geek catalog, an OpenSolaris CD, a notepad (though not as cool as the ones Google gave out last year), and a advertisement for SourceForge’s annual award party. If you remember, last year’s party is where I got my first tattoo. I might get another one this year. We’ll see how things pan out.
Now that I’m checked into the hotel and the conference, I think it’s time to go in search for food and drink.
Oh. The hotel room here is awesome. It’s the closest one to the elevator and is very spacious for a single person. I like it quite a bit. The only downside is that you have to pay $13 a day for Internet access. I’m not paying that when I have my aircard with me and it’s reliable and secure. Not sure what level of security the hotel has on their wireless…
