As brilliant plans don't always have a way of working out, I left for Austin quite late on the 9th. Not much was happening yet in the world of SXSW. Check-in took place from Noon to 8pm, but I was on a mission that could not be stopped. I was after the Nokia N800 tablet.

I arrived at 8:30pm after a two hour drive into Austin. I met up with BuhBuhCuh Fairchild and we immediately headed over to CompUSA to get the glorious device, which would later turn out to be downright awful. When we returned, it was time to party.

Word on the street was that the place to go was The Blind Pig...

Everyone was Twittering up a storm, so it wasn't hard to find out the scoop. It was, however, quite hard to locate them, as it was a series of twists and turns that ended with us finding them in the back of the upstairs bar. It was great to see a lot of familiar faces in the crowd, as well as some new ones. Attending the meetup on Friday, March 9th, were Christian Prior, SNOOPYbrown Zamboni, Johnny Ming, BuhBuhCuh Fairchild, moo Money, Adri Saarinen, Peter Newell, Cornelius Linden, Cube Linden, Spin Martin, Zero Grace, and Max Case.

It was off to bed early for most of us, as the first panel involving Second Lifers was at 10am on Saturday morning. There will be plenty more to come regarding panels and parties, so stay tuned!

(Pictured in first pic are SNOOPYbrown Zamboni, Peter Newell, and Johnny Ming. Pictured in second pic are Spin Martin, Max Case, SNOOPYbrown Zamboni, and Peter Newell.)