Hello, Everybody. Nice seeing you again.

Apologies for the lateness of my update. Get so busy during the trade show that sneaking away for a update has gotten increasingly difficult. Here are a couple of updates from the first two days of the show. To put it precisely, it’s been Awesome with a capital A, baby!

Thursday started out great. Life|ware sponsored the keynote address by Dick Vitale. He was energetic, compelling and funny. A great choice for the keynote. When he finished, he headed down into the crowd to shake hands and meet the integrators who had attended. Below, he chats with EI’s Mike Seamons before taking the stage:

After the speech, Dickie V and ESPN’s ‘the Schwab’ checked out Life|ware:

By the way, Dickie V says the Buckeyes have got “a real chance” to go all the way in the tournament this year.

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Hello Everybody, nice seeing you again.

When you leave Ohio for Florida in the middle of Winter, people tend to give you grief. For example, here was the scene at my house before leaving on Wednesday:

OK, got it. Snow. Cold. Gray. Unpleasant. But, before you get all ‘free trip to Florda’ on me, here was the scene when I arrived:

Get it? Dark. Indoors. Unpleasant. We put in really long hours on the trade show floor, and setting up a giant booth is always an adventure, made no easier by a certain weaselly Yankee running around sticking his camera all up in your grille. (Um, me.)

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