>This Tuesday John Harvey was the guest speaker at the monthly FUDG meeting in downtown Chicago. We went to dinner afterwards, along with another FUDG member. It was a very enjoyable evening.
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>In person John is an engaging person, nothing like the bomb thrower we sometimes see here. I suspect he would say the same of me. We both laughed, shook hands, and off we went. Well worth getting home too late.
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Haha, well thanks Mike, I think.<g> I had a great time, and my wife and son enjoyed touring the city. Dinner was very good, too. Both from a conversational as well as gastric perspective. Patrick distrusts the government more than I do, and that is saying a lot!

It seems my fox stuff will still be around a while, but it looks like my skills are going to be ported to dot net too. I've accepted the position with the Memphis Police Dept as the head of their new Real Time Crime Center and Crime Analysis Unit. I start on the 20th (probably the 22nd, as it's a Monday) and it is going to utilize a lot of what has already been developed in my WASP application and the local DA's website - which I developed.

As to being a bomb thrower - well, yeah, sometimes it's fun to lob a little napalm and see what the reaction might be!

For the lurkers, I encourage everyone to visit Chicago and drop in on their FUG. We had a great time.