Eight minutes to go and BoomTown has a copious choice of seating here at the San Jose Fairmont Imperial Ballroom, as you can see from this picture.

But there was no electricity for the computers of the press!

The purple T-shirt squad from Yahoo (YHOO) had lovingly set up power strips for the reporters gathered in the cheap seats in the back. But the power was off. Then it came back on, went out and came back again. For now.

Is Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang power-playing with the press as he did shareholder activist Carl Icahn?

As in taking it away?

Well played, Jerry, well played!

Ah, lovely breakfast pastries of all kinds tumbling down from the tables outside the Imperial Ballroom at the San Jose Fairmont this morning at Yahoo’s annual meeting.

But, of course, no Carl Icahn and the noisy proxy fight circus that would have followed the shareholder activist here.

Which is kind of a relief, really, after a very fraught year for the troubled Internet company.

As to news that is likely to come out of the meeting, which starts at 10 a.m.?

“It’s going to be boring,” said one Yahoo PR honcho.

“We’re going for dull,” said another, sporting a purple Yahoo T-shirt, which most of the various Yahoo (YHOO) minions were wearing.

“Nothing will happen,” said another.

Actually, it sounds like a great corporate strategy for the year ahead for Yahoo: Aggressive monotony!

No news is good news!

Bore reporters into a stupor!

Well, I am sure I can come up with something.

Until then, here is my video from last year’s meeting at the much less tony Santa Clara Convention Center: