Google Calendar Sync @ CeBIT 2007

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Cebit 2007 – Hannover, Germany

Spent the last few days in Germany, Thursday to Sunday, attending the CeBIT electronic trade show. I managed to find a free wireless hotspot and post a blog entry while I was there but I thought I would write a full account of my trip here now.

Traveled to Berlin from East Midlands Airport on Thursday evening.My first time on a budget airline and I have to say it wasn’t that bad, I got a seat and the plane didn’t fall apart so that was all good, but I haven’t been on many planes so can’t really compare it to anything better.

Our Hotel was a 1 and a half hours from Berlin and a further 1 and a half hours to Hannover, which meant a lot of driving, but since I wasn’t the one doing the driving that didn’t bother me.

CeBIT was great, it was massive for a start. We had a look around hundreads of stands for a multitude of different companies. We managed to talk to a lot of companies in a mobile sector and get a few good contacts. I did my best to promote www.GooSync.com as much as I could and managed to hand out a good number of business cards while I was there.

Of general interest there was some good stuff about Augmented Reality systems in the future technology hall.
(How Augmented Reality Works) There was a face recognition system that would pick out a face from a video image and display on screen that persons mood. There was also a system that displayed a 3D bird on a live video feed that you could interact with. A Camera was set up facing a blank space of floor, a screen showed the live video of this blank floor, the augmented reality 3D bird was then shown standing on the floor on the screen. If you placed a blank piece of paper in front of the camera on the screen the bird would jump up onto the paper. It looked great.

I got a few pictures of the event and so did some of the guys I went with, I will upload them to Flickr when I get a chance. On the last day we traveled back to Berlin and stopped by the Autostadt in Wolfsburg (Autostadt) which is a visitors museum and visitor centre for the VW factory. It was amazing, it has a regular museum full of old cars and then each of the comapnies in the VW group, Audi, Skoda, Lamborghini, Bentley and VW all had their own building with different attractions in them like the Light and Laser show for Lamborghini and the 360 degree cinema for VW. If you ever go to Germany I recommend you stop in at the AutoStadt you’ll have a great day.

We traveled back home on Sunday night, I got back to my flat about 1am. But I’m back at work now and chasing up some of the leads we got while at the show. Maybe I’ll get to go again next year, it would be nice.

CeBIT 2007 – Day 1

I,m in Hannover in Germany at the CeBIT technology exhibition with my company, Toffa International, trying to promote our new product, GooSync.

The first day here was the Friday, it was busy but not crazy. It really is the biggest show ever, 26 halls all with hundrea of companies showing their stuff.

Most of the first day we managed to speak with a lot of small/medium sized businesses. We tried the big ones too, Samsung etc.. but they are too big to be bothered. Looking around we have seen some neat stuff. A few stands showing augmentedality systems that we very impressive. Samsungs new music player/phone was worth a look too.

Just two more days here and were heading back home, still a lot more to see before then.

MPH.

Football Tickets

I recently won Premiership match tickets for an Aston Villa game in a competition from Barclays. It was for a February 24th game but got re-arranged because of the FA Cup. Its now being played 7:45 on March 14th.

I got the tickets posted to me but I couldn’t go so I sold them. So now two other nice people will get a chance to see a great premiership game and not have to pay the massive price tag for a premiership game, although I did get a reasonable amount for them.

The annoying thing is that for the big games the clubs charge more. For this game against Arsenal it was a Class A game so the tickets I got would have cost almost £70. I sold them for about half that.

Its a shame because I would love to go to more games, especially Manchester United ones but its often way to expensive. There has to be some way to make the game cheaper to watch, with all the TV and sponsorship money you would think they made enough already. It’s the players and the agents and their ridiculous pay demands. How ever good you are at kicking a football around you should never earn that amount of money. The agents are worse, they do nothing and get a cut of all the huge transfer fees!

All the clubs getting bought out by foreign billzillionaires isn’t helping either, more money just goes to more super rich players, all foreign as well so no room for any English players anymore. Its a mess. It looks like I’ll have to find more time sometime to rant and complain about this because I’m tired now, but I really want to complain some more, so maybe I’ll go have a nice dream about it, I can slap Abramovich round the head with a giant fish and nick his wallet. Thats only fair I think.

MPH.

Turn off Adobe Reader 8 Automatic Updater

I hate automatic updates that I didn’t approve. Especially ones that pop up annoying little icons in my windows task bar. I hate it getting cluttered with a thousand different programs all automatically updating themselves without my permission.

Adobe Reader 8 is one of the annoying ones, this is because in the general preferences of the program there are no options to turn it off.

What you have to do is actually when it first pops up out of the blue, causing your firewall to scream blue murder at this unauthorised program trying to access YOUR internet connection, is not get annoyed and tell it to politely fuck the hell off, but actually let it check for updates and then it will present you with this screen.

Now you can tell it to get lost by clicking on preferences and unchecking automatic updates. Finally again peace is restored to your desktop once more. Begone with you now and enjoy the tranquility in the absence of annoying automatic updates once more!

Note: Although I hate the idea of automatic updates popping up all over the place without warning I do think that regular updates of programs are important for the security of your system. So take a few minutes every so often when it suits you to update your system and stay secure!

Liverpool 0 – 1 Manchester United

Thats two games in a row that we didn’t really deserve to win but walked away with the 3 points. But thats the mark of true champions. To win the league luck has to be on your side. It was a good omen today, we are another step closer to the title today.

The match wasn’t the greatest of all time, Liverpool played well but we did a good job of holding them back. It was a bit scrappy at times and there were not many chances.

Liverpool had a goal disallowed for offside. It was a close call be we got the luck and it was rules out. Then with Liverpool pushing forward with the belief they were going to win Van Dar Sar made one of the saves of the season to deny Crouch a goal.

Scholes got sent off for lashing out late on when the tension was getting high. We will really miss him for the couple of games he will be out but I hope that we’ll do alright whiles he’s gone.

With a few minutes left good work by Giggs on the left side got a free kick. Ronaldo whipped in a shot, the keeper spilled it and John O’Shea was there to knock it in.

This and the Fulham game before it are likely to be the defining point of the season and I hope to look back and say that was the point that won us the title.

Premiership
	0-1
		O’Shea 89