Sorry for the late post. I’ve been so busy with projects, catching up with friends and participating the various activities. Even getting a good night’s rest has taken a lower priority.I ended up staying awake until 5:00am or so the night before working on a project. I did manage to roll out of bed in time for breakfast but I didn’t make it out to the cafeteria. There was a server crisis at my job that had to be fixed remotely (I’m the only IT guy) and so, that had to come first.

I’ve yet to make it to a breakfast, a phenomenon I think I will refer to as the “KFest Diet” because that sounds better than saying I was too lazy/busy to make it to breakfast.

First up was a video provided by Andy Molloy, called Hackers: Wizards of the Computer Age which I’ve seen before, and highly recommend. It’s a collection of conversations from the 1980’s with Steve Wozniak, Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld plus several others discussing the Hacker Ethic.

Few people know how to play Silvern Castle better than Bruce Baker. We got to see that and several 8-bit classics from the Softdisk collection. If you’re a fan of retro gaming, this was the session to be at.

Lunch happened but I didn’t go… too busy.

Austin Phelps kicked off the afternoon sessions with a demo and discussion on one of the hottest trends in the information technology sector – Virtual Computing. Using applications like VMWare, Parallels Desktop and Virtual PC (just Google those – I’m feeling lazy right now) it’s possible to set up a second or third virtual machine that may run a completely different operating system than that of the host. Very cool.

Sheppy was up next with “Getting Started With ORCA”. ORCA is the default development environment used by many of the programming languages offered by The Byte Works. Sheppy took us on a tour of how to navigate and write a Hello World program and then compile it to an executable application.

Ryan Suenaga, easily the busiest man on the planet then announced the immediate availabity of volumes 2 and 3 of GS+ from Syndicomm. These aren’t merely scans of the archived issues – they are searchable PDF files of the articles and accompanying disks. A lot of hard work that we all appreciate! Thanks Ryan!

Dinner was next. Rockhurst served fajitas or chicken, potatos and green beans. The cherry pie was also awesome.

The rest of the evening was comprised of a trip out to the Apple Store, and then the annual Krispy Kreme donut feast followed by more hanging out with everyone in the dorms. It’s been fun, really.