Well, the preparation for leaving on our journey to Sunnyvale went pretty well. The drive down, despite the threat of WMD’s (hey, when you get pulled over at 2am in a foreign country, that gun threat WAS a WMD - ask BUSH!), went smoothly, and even our attempts to find where we were staying was pretty seamless. We stayed up pretty late and coded a reasonable facsimile of what we wanted to create using a variety of different API’s. When it came time to present, I started getting a little nervous, but it wasn’t really a big deal. Then, I went to test my computer on one of their monitors. Suddenly, my computer wasn’t cloning onto the other screen. Not a big deal, extend the desktop and make it happen. Well, apparently there was a problem with the timestamp we had setup on our application, and I got the Yahoo! screen of death. When I went to refresh the page, I forgot that I had extended my window, not cloned it, so whenÂ? I went to refresh the page, I refreshed the wrong window. … all in all, it went pretty well. The man with the bell gave me a little pause, and I only pushed past his imposed extended time limit a few seconds, and it seems to be fairly well received. After that, I was able to get some pills for the cold I’m coming down with, grab a quick bite to eat, and settle down to enjoy the creations the rest of the hackers have come up with. There was even a special presentation just seconds ago by Patrick Stewart. Nice work…

Update: Adding to the Ooops title, when I went to publish this post, I forgot to add the Yahoo! Open Hack Day tag, so I quickly added it and hit ’save’ again, forgetting of course that it would post the article twice. …

It’s like magic, but it’s not. It’s flash.

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