Sneak used to be a hippie you know? But the whole living for world peace and lack of personal hygiene thing just became a drag, man. That said though, even though his kids now go to private schools, and he's more likely to give people the Vs than the peace sign, sometimes, in the middle of the night, Sneak feels the siren call of Haight-Ashbury in his ears.

But let Sneak warn all of you children of the 60s; if you go down to sunny San Fran this month you're in for a big surprise. Yes, tens of thousands of uber-geeks have descended on the city to talk chips, CRM, virtualisation and much, much more. Following VMWorld and BEAWorld last week, it's the turn of Salesforce.com and Intel this. Now Sneak has been stuck on a SF streetcar with 50 Java developers before and it ain't pretty. So be warned y'all. Peace.