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On saturday 2005-09-10, 04:30 (am) everything started. After just 3 hours of sleep I started my journey waiting for the train to the airport in Hannover.
After 12 hours of flying around and almost 20 hours traveling in total we arived at our hotel in L.A. (Renaissance Hollywood), which was very impressive. |
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As soon as I arrived at the hotel I started to take some pictures of Hollywood L.A. from the 12th floor where my room was located. |
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Walking around on Hollywood Blvd is very nice, cinemas like the Kodac Theatre or the Chinese Theatre looked impressive from the outside but where still very small in contrast to big cinemas like CinemaxX. |
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I could even see the famous "Hollywood sign" on the hills of Hollywood directly from my hotel room. |
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At the airport we had to wait a long time because the personal is not very quick there and is writing everything down on paper (wtf?). The security checks did also take a long time and were pretty stupid IMO (checking the bags and then noone is allowed to touch them anymore). At least I had time to spot an american flag (finally, how could I miss all the other ones?). |
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This picture shows all european attendees waiting for the check-in, we spend almost 4 hours at the airport. |
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Tuesday, 2005-09-13 the first PDC day began and the famous Bill Gates gave a nice welcome keynote to us developers at the PDC. This is Room A, where all the keynotes where given. Sponsors like AMD, hp, ATI, intel, ca, etc. where all over the place. |
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Couple of Microsoft Guys speaking about new technologies. |
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The week is over now and it is time to head back home. On the picture you can see the EMEA@PDC helpers (I would call them bunnies ^^). There is also the bus driver on the picture |
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After 9 hours and 30 minutes we saw european land again (well, the plane took a route over scottland too, but we couldn't see anything through the clouds). This is Amsterdam and after waiting a couple more hours for my flight back to Hannover I was finally home and could sleep (after nearly 30 hours of being awake, but thats kinda normal for a game developer like me). |
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