Exhibit Hall Blogging
rdm and Juha
FORTROP II officially opened this morning with great ceremony. At least I assume that it was a great ceremony, Juha and I were staffing the IUFRO/GFIS booth during the opening address. That’s fine with us, we had to figure out how to put together the high-tech displays and that took some time. 
During the breaks we had lots of visitors to our table but no one has come back to us from the workshop. I still wonder if we made a difference yesterday….
This morning I spent a fair amount of time with folks from the DPRK. They were facinated with Google Earth and I helped them download a copy to their comptuer so that they can take it back to North Korea with them. All the DPRK folks have buttons of Kim Jong-il that they wear on their suits. I tried to trade them an Obama button for one of the Dear Leader but so far they have not agreed. This afternoon I plan to have some mekju with them and perhaps I will have better luck.