Run To The Future

So, I'm out of touch...deliberately. Now I hear (on the grapevine) that Yahoo is losing a lot of money and all the employees are fleeing (the sinking ship). Which explains the "1 drink only" situation last night at the Yahoo/Zendcon party, compared with the "drink free all night" which they had last year. I'm listening to the session "What's new in PHP 5.3" which is interesting, but the situation is the same as I've noticed everyday - a lot of people typing away on their computers, playing with their phones, and basically not listening to the presenter (four sitting up on a table in this session). Of course that's not a reflection of the conference organisers, but it does reflect on the presentations many of which haven't been that well presented, even if the content has been interesting.