Nervousness ensues

by Renanse | Saturday, May 03, 2008 in , , |

Well, JavaOne is fast approaching and it looks like I've got a full plate ahead of me. Rikard and I finished off the last of our demonstration pieces for our technical session this morning, so we're pretty much all ready to go. Yet, somehow my stomach and nerves feel like they are being dipped into alternating pots of ice cold and boiling hot water. Why am I speaking again? I'm a programmer, not a public speaker. :)

Ah well, I'm sure it will go just fine and the week will be past and gone before you know it. Still... excuse me while I go scream.

3 comments:

  1. Paul on May 04, 2008 4:09 AM

    I think it helps in general if one knows that most of the public at such events give 1/1000 less attention to the whole way the speaker present itself than to the things in general the speaker will tell. So who cares about small things if the content of the presentation is just solid! :)

     
  2. Yun Zhi (Masta) Lin on May 04, 2008 7:41 PM

    If it helps, just imagine your audience are in their underwear...

     
  3. Wegg on May 06, 2008 10:36 AM

    One day I'm just going to show up to a big conference in some outlandish underwear and all the speakers will be amazing because they will see me. :-)

     

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