db4free.net blog: More from the MySQL UC

So here are a few photos from me that I've taken at the Conference and around. So let's start with my hotel.

It was quite a cheap hotel and to be honest - not the very cleanest one. But I didn't spend much time there anyway, so why bother. But what's that against the litter that I could find on the streets and sidewalks (to not be misunderstood I'd like to add that none of the litter is from me ;-)).

Since I'm quite a heavy smoker, I was quite concerned about the smoking opportunities in California. But it was by far not that tough. Only during the flight I had to help myself with an inhalor, but finding places to smoke was not really hard in CA.

So here's my car that I rented for my 6 day stay in CA - it was an even bigger one than the one I've ordered (which wasn't available at the time when I picked it up, so I got a car one class higher). It had masses of buttons that I even didn't find out what they are good for, but most of them are not needed for driving anyway - so I even got quite used to it and felt quite comfortable (although
I usually don't drive cars with automatic transmission - another thing to get used
to).

It's a bit off-topic, but here's my own car - so you can compare a little bit ;-).

One of the bad things is that I hardly have any photos from the Conference and many are quite hazy. But there are many photos from other attendees of the Conference around - check out here:

http://sheeri.com/archives/48
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/tags/mysqluc06/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/sets/72057594112748158
http://www.flickr.com/photos/byte/sets/72057594120596064/
http://jcole.us/gallery/uc2006

If you know more links, please let me know!

But here are two from me - one showing Sheeri during her MySQL Meetup BOF session and the second one shows Giuseppe Maxia receiving his Community Award - seconds before Roland Bouman and me had to face a huge surprise.

I like road and highway photos because they show a lot of the country and what people really see when they visit a specific place. Most photos were taken out of my car.