Who stole MacHack?

First they changed the name, now they seem to have stolen the participants. Although most of the buzz this weekend is about defcon, for Mac users, a much more important event is in full swing at the moment. ADHOC 2005 kicked off in my home town of Dearborn, MI at 12:01 AM yesterday and some of the brightest minds in the Mac development community are currently in the middle of cranking out toys for the Showcase hacking competition, yakking about XCODE 2.1, trying to sort out the finer points of developing for a dual-platform environment, and working on hangover strategies for 72 solid hours of pizza, Bawls, and beer.

This year's conference should be especially exciting, since it will be the first time a collection of hackers like this has gotten together since the leased x86 developer boxes started shipping. Unfortunately, none of the participants seem to be live blogging it, or blogging it at all, really. So far we know, courtesy of Mike Zornek, that it's "going well" and there were "good sessions" on "intel stuff, google apis, hacking the press, and so on." I thought Andy at least might have given us some highlights from his keynote this morning; maybe he's still sleeping it off. Hopefully we'll hear a little more once the Showcase deadline passes at midnight tonight.

Update: according to Scott Knaster, the windows washers started on the hotel at 8am this morning and woke everybody up. For those of you who don't know, the ADHOC keynotes start at 12:01am, which means people got basically no sleep last night. That wouldn't put me in a blogging mood, either. Sleep depravation is best channeled into code, not broadcast across the net in English.