The pictures are in and collected together in a little slide show. My trip was fun and the summit intense. Lots of side meetings for things I am involved in and plenty of gatherings in the bars and restaurants. Not sure I really like Vegas all that much but I barely got out of the Bellagio. It was great to see some of my favorite folks gathered all in one spot - Lou, PeterMe and PeterMo, John, Christina, George, Jesse and Rebecca as well as fun to meet some new folks - Molly, David, Lane, Mike.

Earlier this month I had dinner with a bunch of friends in the city. I tried out my new little SiPix digital camera. It doesn't work too well inside in really low candlelight, but I liked the effect of these shots any way.

We had a partial solar eclipse on Monday. We all went out to check it out and punched holes in paper to look at what was happening without blasting our eyes out. It was pretty unimpressive until someone noticed that the leaves of the trees were casting little moon shaped openings around the shadows on the walls of the building. The result is captured here.