Wednesday 17 January 2006

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

I got up early to work on a panel proposal for ITiCSE. I got it done and was in the computer room by its opening at 7:30am. I used SKYPE and called Phil and Suze. Phil wasn't there but he called me back while I was talking to Suze -- I now know how I could have used hold.

There first talk was very good -- on using game construction to teach data structures. I attended a few other talks and mostly worked on putting together interviews for the oral history project and finishing up the panel.

The keynote speaker was fair. He included a picture of a baby holding up his middle finger which I though was in really poor taste for an academic conference.

It rained in the morning but after the sessions I went for a walk with Sue Fitzgerald along the Derwent River. We saw a pair of sting rays almost on the beach. The sunlight was gorgeous and the flowers spectacular.

I was actually looking for York Street since someone had told me about a little market that posted pictures of people all over the world holding York Market bags. After nearly an hour we didn't come to York Street so we stopped in a post office and asked. Turns out I was walking in the wrong direction! As we headed back, a woman who had been in the post office stopped and offered to drive us to the store. We accepted and thoroughly enjoyed the market.

Sue, me and Norma at the York Market