So, Matt and I have arrived at the top secret location for the Imagine Cup 2008 UK Final (80 Victoria Street, London) and finally managed to get the wireless working long enough to write a blog entry. The schedule for the day is....
11am - Keynote
12pm - Browse posters
1:30pm - A talk on Windows Live Search
2pm - "Working at a startup"
2:30pm "Adapting to a changing environment"
3pm - Imagine Cup Awards Presentation
7pm - Party.
The day seems geared more towards convincing the students that they want to start their own companies, rather than presenting the finalist's ideas. In fact, I've been informed that the judging for the competition is already over and that there won't be any student presentations today. That's slightly disappointing, but the posters are looking good and we've already met up with this year's Aberystwyth team. I'll chat with them more about their ideas later and blog about them if I can get the internet working...
"Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment"
So, the Imagine Cup this year is about the Environment and the UK Finals are in London tomorrow.
Matt and I have used our contacts and previous Imagine Cup experience to gain entry to this year's UK Final to see what this year's entrants have come up with. We've also been told we'll have wifi access so we can blog-as-we-go. I think Matt's plan is to try and do some live video streaming via uStream, whilst I'll take some photos to upload here. Obviously I'm not the most reliable blogger in the world (once a month isn't *
that* bad), but since
Mark Johnston's gone through the effort for us, we'll do our best to give some good content.
Till tomorrow...
I just woke up from a dream which, since I remember it, I'll blog it...
The dream was that I was back working in the Co-op in Ruthin, with all of its original staff (original from my point of view - they were there when I started). Tom (the manager, who became regional manager), Mike (the deputy manager, who became manager of Co-op Rhyl), Ben (floor staff), all of the till girls, everyone...
For whatever reason, in the dream I'd gone back there and was doing a part time job (16 hours a week, evenings and weekends) stacking the shelves again. It had to be part time in order to fit around my current work at Cogenta.
So, I'm back, really happy to see everyone again and it's the end of the evening. There's a new guy (who looks suspiciously like someone from Denbigh High School) and I've discovered that noone bothers to tidy the shelves up any more (I never really worked out whether it was called facing-up or facing-off). I start to tidy an isle, but I've only really just started when it hits 10 o'clock and it's time to go home. But instead of going home, all the staff go outside and start playing basketball, which I'm crap at. At one point, I do this really nice slow-mo slamdunk and the ball still doesn't go in. We laugh about it and the dream ends.
I'll work out what it all means later.
