27 August 2001
A busy morning in San Francisco today:
![[photo]](http://nat.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dsc01783-336x252-border.jpg) Pink shirt: Steve Shankland of CNET.com. Blue shirt: Ross Levanto, our PR guy. |
![[photo]](http://nat.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dsc01795-336x252-border.jpg) Meeting with IDG on their roofdeck. |
![[photo]](http://nat.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dsc01800-336x252-border.jpg) We hung out at Algiers for a while (?!). |
![[photo]](http://nat.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dsc01804-336x252-border.jpg) And then chilled out with ZDNet… |
![[photo]](http://nat.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dsc01805-336x252-border.jpg) …who lump us in with IBM and HP  . |
After all this fun and excitement, I headed down to the Moscone center to check out how the booth setup was going.
![[photo]](http://nat.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dsc01810-336x252-border.jpg) JP configuring a demostation amid pre-LWE chaos. |
Does anyone know why all my pictures look like ass today?
![[photo]](http://nat.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dsc01823-336x252-border.jpg) Ettore hacking, as Reeti and Dan listen to Greg prep everyone for the conference. |
Wow, CNet already has a story from this morning’s interview. That Shankland guy can really haul ass.
Word of the day: diminishing.