Espresso for your blog

I'm at EMC World today, in Orlando. The city is dreary, the weather is dreary (non-stop rain), the food is reasonable, but the coffee, oh the coffee... I can't stand this brown tasteless watery stuff they deliver here as coffee.

But then, when I passed through the Solutions Pavilion today (yes, this is how it's called, I swear), I saw an espresso machine. A real one, chrome-plated, Italian made. With a barrista standing next to it, happy to serve coffee. There was only one condition - you have to be a blogger! Turned out that the coffee maker was stationed inside the "bloggers lounge".

To make a long story short, thanks to this blog I got a wonderful, highly-satisfying, perfectly made double cappuccino. It made me happy for the rest of the day!



The conference itself is a hundred times better with my double cappuccino. If you're not here you're missing on a lot of nifty storage technology!

Mendelssohn on Music

I love this quote:

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. The thoughts which are expressed to me by music that I love are not too indefinite to be put into words, but on the contrary, too definite.

The full quote is below.