Volcano 1, Light Reading 1
Once victim of a canceled flight was Light Reading sales supremo Mark "Broccoli" Brown, who's stuck without another plane seat in sight in the UK.
1-0 to the volcano.
But EuroBlog made it through the ash and confusion to level the scores at 1-1.
As for the battle with the Heavy Reading analyst team, it's set to be a major triumph for the Homo sapiens. Barring any last-minute hitches it should be Volcano 0, Heavy Reading 3, as Ari Banarjee is already in Nice, with Caroline Chappell and the outfit's managing director Dennis "Make mine a Claret" Mendyk set to defy the lava gods. Banarjee and Chappell have already outlined their views ahead of the week's OSS fest. (See Analyst: Data Analytics Needs Some TLC and Path to 4G Is Paved With OSS.)
We'll let you know if the agenda, or Nice's British bars, seem a little thin on the ground as the week progresses.
For all the SPIT news from Nice -- plus reports from the show floor, updates from the conference halls, and gossip from the darkest, dingiest bars on the Côte d'Azur -- keep an eye on our special Management World 2010 Show Site.
— Ray Le Maistre, International Vulcanology Editor (in charge of writing about Eyjafjallajokul and Dr Spock), Light Reading
Claret on the Riviera? You must have me confused with some other managing director.