By Gorm.
Thursday, 3. August 2006, 11:51:01
assembly, demoscene
People are starting to enter the main party hall here. Our stand is up and everything seems to work perfectly. The hole ASM06 crew has been very helpful in getting us everything we need to set things up here. Many thanks!
Last night we met with the Elektran
Jani "Velmu" Tarvainen and he showed us a nice bar in downtown Helsinki were we took some beers. We also met Erik "Kusma" Faye-Lund and some of his "scener" friends. They showed me a very impressive mobile compo. We are looking forward to see what the different groups will produce at this party and it's not a secret that we are especially exited about the browser demo compo!
The network is working, the stand is up, people are arriving, the music is playing so lets the party begin!
By Balder Mørk.
Thursday, 3. August 2006, 10:52:09
mini, demoscene, assembly, opera
So here we are at Assembly 2006, and people are squeezing their way through long queues and starting to find their places. Computers, speakers and tons of junk food is carried into the party hall, and we're starting to see the beginning of a yet another great computer party. The oldskool area is still mostly empty though; these guys have been to a few parties in their time, and know that arriving later this evening will save them a lot of stress and waiting.
The schedule at Assembly this year is packed with cool competitions and interesting seminars, and keeping track of everything that happens can be quite a challenge. Luckily, if you own one of the smartphones running Opera Mobile, or one of the more than 400 mobiles capable of running Opera Mini, you can stay up-to-date even when you're away from the computer. We've even built a custom version of Opera Mini for you, with an exclusive Assembly-skin and some useful bookmarks. Get it via WAP at
http://mini.opera.com/asm06/. Granted, it doesn't feature raster bars when loading pages. My own personal copy does though, but I guess that's one of the benefits of
working at Opera.
By Balder Mørk.
Monday, 31. July 2006, 09:15:06
gathering, demoscene, opera, assembly
Assembly 2006 will be opening its doors in just three days' time, and I'm starting to get restless already.
Assembly is a great example of a well-organized computer party that has something for everybody: gamers, demosceners or plain old computer freaks. On my previous visits I've had great fun and met some really interesting and talented people. This year I expect to do the same, and perhaps even convince some of these people to come
work with me at Opera.
Hope to see you at Assembly! Oh, and if you like this kind of computer party, you're more than welcome to attend
this other little computer party that I co-organize every easter.
WIDGETIZE