Demoing to Michael Caine

Yesterday saw me wander out half way to Espoo to demo our project to a bunch of interesting and interested people. I'm sure it's not a uniquely software issue, but nothing seems to please the gods of software quite so much as striking their flock with the dreaded "demo effect".

What was that quotation - "As private parts to wanton boys are we to the Gods. They play with us for their sport". Flys? Oh. Em. Never mind.

To add to the disconcernment, one of those in attendance looked the spitting image of Michael Caine, and another like Kevin Kline (and was American). I kept expecting them to break into some kind of routine.

Anywhoo, we recorded some videos of the system in action to cover just such an eventuality, and I always look slightly confused, and in anticipation of random acts of, well, acting, so it all went well.

St Patrick's Day tomorrow. While now it's mostly an excuse to drink oneself to oblivion on dyed beer in kitchy bars, it wasn't till 1995 that bars were allowed to open on the day in question in Ireland (no alcohol allowed on a Holy Day). Not a lot of people know that, as the guy in the meeting didn't say.