My Technology Addictions

I can’t believe that it is a month since I posted. I have been pretty busy with attending the WA Training Forum on the 14th and 15th of May at the Burswood Entertainment Complex, Perth WA. I was all organised for this event and had arranged to stay in Perth for the whole week. No work, no kids, no hubby. This meant that I could attend other workshops on the Wednesday and Thursday and go technical book shopping with my friend Sue on the Friday. Well that got blown out of the water when I came down with the flu on the Saturday before the conference. I felt pretty unwell until a trip to the pharmacy helped on the Monday afternoon. Still didn’t really get past about 60% for the whole week though and it is still dragging on now. The Training Forum was a good opportunity to catch up with colleagues that I hadn’t seen for 12 months and hear what everyone has been up to. The session that I was really interested in was on day one called “Emerging Technologies” by Marcus Ragus and Daniel Dacey

It is all about using RFID enabled devices in education. Sue has an article with more detail if you are interested.(Radio Frequency Identification) I also went to the Nerd School session that Sue attended and in her post about Nerd School it is me she is referring to snoring in the room. I don’t see anything wrong with that really seeing I was so ill, but she was up at 4.30am writing that post!! Well I made it through the rest of the week and I think I heard Marcus and Daniel’s presentations about 3 times over all and managed to get a handle on what they have been doing by the third session On Thursday I managed to catch up with Daniel for a geek talk about what we have both been up to with mobile development and that was great. It is good being able to have a semi technical chat with someone who understands what you are talking about. Sue just sighs and walks off when we start, especially if we are all on a Skype conference call together.

Photo’s courtesy of Sue Waters flickr account. Thanks Sue