Long and somewhat tiring day which got me pretty much knackered by the end of it. Up bright and early to wander off to Lisbon as planned for the FM 2006 presentation and press conference with Miles Jacobson and finally the opportunity to meet the man himself, in flesh and bone. Turned out to be quite a pleasant time in many different ways. He's just way accessible, completely down-to-earth type guy and his presentation was flawless. He showed a few screenshots to the assembled press and then played a beta build for a few minutes to show off some of the new features. The few new stuff he actually unveiled was very very pleasant and according to him there's still 20+ new features to be known in the near future. He asked the press not to disclose anything until the press release is out by the end of the week, so I'm refraining from talking any further about it here aswell.

After a few interviews, we went downstairs - awesome hotel by the way, right in the heart of Lisbon - to have lunch and had to chance to get to know Miles a bit better. Turns out he's an alternative music fan (oh, rings some bells) but we didn't talk much more about that. Some points of view were discussed, we had the chance to point out some things that need to be done concerning our work for the game and generally we spent some good time with him. I hope to meet him again when I travel to London by the end of October to attend a couple of Dream Theater shows and hopefully get together with the folks at the office up there aswell. Interesting times ahead.

Picked up my Amazon order from the post office and it turns out that the postman *really* messed up the package origin in the note he left. Amazon packages contain some publicity of their services nowadays and one of those is something like "NEW Home & Garden, Top brands low price". So he just went on and wrote down that the package originated from "New Home". Right...

Found an interesting - and somewhat depressing, when it comes to Nirvana - interview with Dave Grohl via Blabbermouth.