All session content is up, videos are copying now, in the BriForum Spring 2006 Attendee Blog forum on BrianMadden.com

Hello All,

I've updated / uploaded all of the session content that I've received from the presenters, including PowerPoints, ZIPs, scripts, etc.

I also have the 150kbps video camera streams from Arnie. (Remember these are just the zoomed in close ups of the speakers.) Those are copying up to the website now. You'll notice that some of the videos are posted now, and that more will be popping in over the next 12 hours or so. I'm also posting the rough MP3s.

Finally, the servers have finished rendering the screen capture animations, and I have delivered those to Arnie. He's going to assemble the final side-by-side screen animations combined with the video camera videos, and then I'll post those for download.

Actually, I have a funny story about that. Arnie needed to deliver a hard drive full of the 150k videos and MP3s to me, and I needed to deliver a drive full of the rendered screen animations to him. We planned to meet tonight at a coffee shop. As most of you know, I ride a motorcycle, and it was a nice night tonight, so I rode the bike to the coffee shop. When I got to that neighborhood, everything was pitch black. There was obviously some kind of power outage.. the street lights were out and the coffee shop was closed. I sat on my bike on the side street that leads to the coffee shop and waited for Arnie. A few minutes passed. He pulled up in his SUV. He rolled down the window. I pulled a hard disk out of messenger bag and handed it to Arnie and quickly replaced it with the one he gave me. He rolled up the window and left in one direction. I fired up my Duc and left in the other direction.

I can't believe that I wasn't pulled over on the way home! :)

Brian

Ha! and in DC no less... I see the start of the Madden Identity.. or the Madden Supremacy series... ;P

Check out the .ppt files from Thomas Kotzing. I cannot get them to open. I have tried to open the files from three machines with the same error. 'Powerpoint cannot read the file.' Has anyone else had this issue?

Steph

ORIGINAL: Brian Madden

I can't believe that I wasn't pulled over on the way home! :)

Nah! Statistically speaking, there has never been anyone with blue hair that was a threat to national security. Besides, if there was concern that it was a drug related issue, they'd probably mistake you for a user rather than a courier so the threat is still low. [image]http://www.brianmadden.com/forum/image/s2.gif[/image]

Shawn