So I’m there at the Harrison booth talking with Gary, finding out that their Trion board is selling big at under $150k (four in the last nine months to Germany, another to The Post Group in L.A., and a film board to Taipei). He says that the name of the game is twice the power at half the cost, and they did it by building out the processor with AMD dual-core technology. As we’re talking, in walks our old friend Jonathan Porath, former chief engineer at Sound One in New York. Looking good, and telling tales of his last two years traveling around the world with his family. Last year he figured he needed to get his kids back in school, so they settled in Shanghai. Turns out he’s networking, staying out of trouble, and taking the lay of the land. Shanghai, it seems, has a commercial business but not much of a film biz. Stories of state-of-the-art technology right next to dirt floors. But there is room there for some business, he says. We’ll see how long he can stay idle…Good to see you jonathan