{"id":1671,"date":"2007-09-19T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T11:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/conference-call\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T11:19:09","slug":"conference-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/conference-call","title":{"rendered":"Conference Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hosted our big (around 400+ people) pharma-conference & exhibition yesterday, and that’s the most nerve-wracking day of my year.<\/p>\n

This edition’s Big Surprise occurred shortly before the first presentation, when our marketing assistant informed me that, while he did<\/em> bring down the PC laptop that we use for the presentations, he forgot to bring the power supply for it. So I had to go through our exhibit hall, check out which of the 130 vendors happened to be using ThinkPads, and cajole use of their power-cords during the day.<\/p>\n

We have 5 more presentations going on this morning, but the exhibition ended yesterday, so I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to manage to keep that laptop powered up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hosted our big (around 400+ people) pharma-conference & exhibition yesterday, and that’s the most nerve-wracking day of my year. This edition’s Big Surprise occurred shortly before the first presentation, when our marketing assistant informed me that, while he did bring down the PC laptop that we use for the presentations, he forgot to bring … <\/p>\n

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