It was better than most of my bvacations/b. In many ways it was better than the previous Openworld. Last year was magical, like falling in love. This time, it was a bit like visiting an old friend. I felt more at home. ... The highlights: Alex Gorbachev's Clusterware Internals, walking tour of San Francisco with Rob van-bWijk/b, Blogger Meetup, Amazon's session, chatting with Nicolas and Rob, RAT session by Jim Czuprinksi, complaining about streams and clusterware issues to ...