The BileBlog

I attended the EJB3 migration talk in the afternoon, which was all a bit too straightforward and no-nonsense so I’m afraid there really isn’t anything worth mentioning beyond one little aspect of the talk. I won’t go into details, but anyone who was there will no doubt concede that this talk contained the absolute best and more irrelevant factoid ever illustrated in any talk this year. Who knew that urination played such a big role in insemination in Canada!

I attended the EJB3 BOF next which was disturbing as it showed that I am pretty much the only guy at TSS who has to maintain EJB2 applications and actually treats said applications with some amount of responsibility. Floyd certainly wasn’t correct when he described the attendees are leaders, a lot of the polls however do tell us exactly what segment these attendees represent. The majority basically seems to be random grunts who have no actual understanding of any sort of higher level view of the technology landscape. They are engaged in a perpetual quest to find the next shiny object to grin inanely at. Even the so called ‘thought leaders’ are more often than not piddly little consulting gig monkeys who think that just because they happen to be able to pimp their open sores crap that the big boys would be doing the same thing.

Eventually I managed to stumble my way into the opensymphony sponsored open bar at the Bellagio. Much alcohol was consumed (surprise surprise) and I spent a good portion of the time pointing out to anyone who’d listen any combination of JSF is dumb, JDO is dead, Sun is weird, Apache is by morons for morons, and other such witticisms. Still, since we’re paying for so many people to get drunk I feel that did earn me the right to clamber up onto my soapbox and pound the pulpit in the general direction of anyone who’d listen.

Eventually a group of us peeled off and headed out in quest of more solid consumables. Much eating and drinking later resulted in the conversation eventually degenerating to the merits of anal sex, as well as various caveats that one must keep in mind for such shenanigans. The weaker members of the group slowly peeled off and crawled into their respective beds, and the hardcore real men (read, those too cowardly to admit they’re tired as fuck and need to sleep) stumbled bravely onwards into another bar. More things were consumed, a surprising number of new technologies were invented (courtesy of Dion and Cedric) and much hilarity ensued.

And so it’s now 5:30am and I should really really follow through on my passing out instinct. I’m not sure I’ll be up for any talks tomorrow as I have a somewhat early flight out.

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