title The BREW Developers Conference, San Diego, California - 2nd June 2005 intro Nosher and Nick are in San Diego to help out on one of Qualcomm's stands at its annual developer conference. This year's gig is at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, on the waterfront in San Diego, and has around 2,500 attendants. Nick and Nosher are charged with talking to the masses about stuff for about nine hours non-stop on the bizarrely thick shag-pile carpet that the stand is built on. There's also a half-hour to catch some of the keynote speeches, where Peggy Johnson talks about our stuff, and the CEO-elect of Qualcomm abseils down on to the stage. After the first day, there's an event down at the Emacadero, a park which has been turned into some sort of carnival for the night with free bars and food everywhere. imgp5813 Nick in the hotel's reception imgp5817 The Qualcomm Internet Solutions control room imgp5818 Nick's on the phone imgp5819 Nick and Luke on the escalator imgp5821 Luke helps us set up the stand imgp5822 Luke tests some stuff imgp5823 The empty conference suite imgp5825 Nick, Amit and Luke ascend the escalator imgp5826 We get about five minutes to eat something imgp5827 Luke looks up from the fruit salad imgp5828 Amit and Nick imgp5831 Breakfast with the Coronado Bridge in the background imgp5833 The BREW shop imgp5836 Nick models the "uniform" imgp5837 A green polo shirt and regulation "khaki pants" imgp5838 Delegates and official Qualcomm backpacks imgp5840 Nick grins imgp5842 Chefs prepare more food down at the Emacadero imgp5844 Marcello from QC Cambridgre and Will, from London imgp5849 The tables are supplied with carnival stuff imgp5850 Some acrobatic stuff occurs imgp5865 The Emacadero is nicely lit up imgp5867 Russell McHugh tries a bit of rock climbing imgp5869 Russell falls off imgp5871 A ferris wheel imgp5873 Someone's on one of those bouncy things imgp5882 An outside bar imgp5891 More impressive gymnastics imgp5902 Flying around in a hoop imgp5913 The Manchester Grand Hyatt imgp5917 The keynote speeches, as seen from the back imgp5923 We're back on the stand imgp5924 Some of the other exhibitors imgp5928 A view of the hotel swimming pool imgp5931 Downtown San Diego imgp5937 The shiny Marriott Hotel, and the Coronado Bridge