CodeCon
I had a great time at CodeCon over the weekend. I saw an exciting GNU Radio demo, heard about a lot of other interesting work (Dan Kaminsky's Paketto Keiretsu, for example), and had some neat conversations with people. I got to hang out with Robyn Wagner (now "Esq."!) and Lucky Green, and play a bit of Scrabble with the former. I also saw Ben Laurie, visiting from far away, and talked with him and Raph Levien about a lot of interesting issues.
I went to dinner with an extremely geeky group on the first evening of the conference, and got to ask them a question about attacks on watermark detectors. The group came up with a great solution, which I might write up as a Cruelty to Analog post or try to publish as a paper. I also heard a lot about capability systems and (as on other days of the conference) found myself repeatedly impressed by how eclectic the interests of many programmers turn out to be.
The best part of CodeCon might well have been the opportunities for conversation with such a fascinating group of people. It was a really good conference.
I passed up an opportunity to go snowshoeing in the mountains in order to attend CodeCon, but I still ended up completely exhausted at the end of it.
