Richard is in San Francisco this week at the JavaOne conference. I spoke to him this morning and he said that the first day had gone well, although he’d forgotten how intense it all was. There are 20,000 geeks there this year, and amazingly enough he bumped into one of the guys I used to work with at Speedwing Logica many years ago. The conference lasts all week, and there are loads of different talks and events to go too.