There are now about 4,523,978 people at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and roughly 7.2% of those have bumped into me or stood on my foot, though only one has actually fallen on top of me. OK, slight exaggeration. The show organisers are apparently expecting only about 130,000 visitors, but it feels as though most of them turned up around at lunchtime today, instead of spreading themselves through the week.
I did bump into -- figuratively speaking -- quite a few interesting people, including Ben and Mena Trott of Six Apart fame. Apparently Mena is going to be on the front cover of Fortune magazine, which is a fantastic accolade for what started as a humble blogging outfit.
I also had a brief conversation with former Apple CEO John Sculley, who was wearing a badge that did not divulge his real name. It was brief because I was on the down escalator and he was on the up escalator to the monorail.
But I confess I skipped what could have been a once-in-a-lunchtime chance: the autograph session with the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
