I spent the day at a conference sponsored by our SIS developer. The food was excellent, which is always a solid barometer for conference success and I learned that I’ve forgotten too much java (X2’s Aspen SIS largely uses java to interact with the relational database that sits on its back end) and really need to get back into programming this summer.

What’s more interesting, however, was the participants’ reactions to an Asus Eee PC that one of the other attendees brought with her. It was one of their 4GB matte black models with the 7″ screen and was running Linux. From the moment she broke it out to check her email during the morning’s keynote address to the time we wrapped up in the afternoon, it was being passed from person to person, as they all used it to check their own emails, view presentations, and access their student data.

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