Yes, Bit-tech is doing more Podcasts in the future. The gearing is being put in place so that mechanisms can turn in order to get it rolling.
The only problem we had with NBS wasn’t enthusiasm it was finding an internet connection, recording equipment and the time everyone is around to do it when we weren’t working or busy with other things. Now those three should be alleviated things should fall into place nicely.
All the free shit I get and never use is being given away here.
The condition is you have to enter the Bit-tech photo of the month competition. This months has closed, but next month starts in a few days and free stuff piles into the office semi-regularly so it should get more added to the winning pile choice each month 
To describe myself as feeling like I’ve been stamped on is an understatement. Sleep is good, although somehow eluding my pursuit.
Shenanigans of journalists and companies is far deeper than you could ever imagine, and people from both sides forget everyone is human at the end of the day. However, there’s still the self-preservation interest everybody has of themselves, their work and their own sites/products so it’s always going to be a conflict of interest. It’s the problem of public domain versus NDA, whether specs were leaked before hand and comments were made on them, or whether simply attending an event means you cannot comment on something happening within it without confirming what’s happening in it?
Tunisia is a great place, however I couldn’t spent too long there. It’s a shame AMD decided we should spend two entire days INSIDE for the meetings. They might as well had it in a diamond mine a few thousand miles south: it would have been just as hot and dark. Although, from a personal experience now, and at least someone I know will disagree, everyone I met at ATI is genuinely nice. They are still people of after all. It’s just a shame that no one from AMD was actually there and we’ll have to wait until K10 is released. In all, it’s still a long way from an IDF-esq event in its entirety .
Apparently my blog is so controversial China sees fit to block it, along with Wikipedia, BBC News and my email. It’s like being completely detached from the world, although I did thankfully manage to get through to bit-tech in order to get some work done.
Beijing is still as quality as it was back in ‘05, although the smog seems to have got substantially worse. The whole city is like a 24 hour building site in order to get it ready for the Olympics. The Birds Nest Stadium is complete, however, and looks mightily impressive. You think stadiums are just stadiums and whilst everyone is unique, the architectural ingenuity that went into the surrounding design of this is just incredible.
Now I’m in Tunisia, courtesy of AMD. It is an awesome country with some fantastic sights to see: I’ve already been to Carthage and taken some shots, but shooting in RAW takes forever to mull through the pics and I could really use some sleep. I don’t even know what time zone my body clock is on right now though. We’re going to get some info on future products which you can probably guess at but after signing my life away on a legal form this evening I won’t utter any more just yet.
I was going to write a whole load of detail here about how IDF works but I’m saving it for a column comparing the AMD and Intel events and how they both handle product launches and news.
I’ve still got to write about Tera-scale computing and the process design of CPUs as well, but half finished hardware reviews in need of completion await my return unfortunately.
Every-single-day I laugh my ass off for a good few minutes thanks to this site.
Laughing is good for your health too, so hence the sharing. Don’t say I never look after you.
