Dateline: TED Conference, Monterey Conference Center, Monterey CA, 26 February 2005

That was pretty cool.

Probably the best 20 minutes of speaking I have ever done. Crowd interrupted with sustained applause maybe 3 times. But the standing ovation to end the piece was both very unexpected (haven't received one since a Y2K talk in front of a bunch of SysAdmins down in FL in 1999).

Then I asked the host, Chris Anderson, why I didn't win the Rave award. Joke on me: different Chris Anderson!

Coolest on the way out the door: Charles Fleischer (Roger Rabbit) met me in hall, said I was funnier than most comedians he's ever worked with, and offered to call my kids on tape with a customized message in the guise of Robert Rabbit!

I will definitely have him call Jerome on the 10th! (his fifth birthday).

My hands were shaking pretty bad during the talk, which hasn't happened to me in a very long time, but it was way cool.