I arrived in San Diego a few days early and rented a car to go site seeing. When the crisis hit, I called the rental car company and told them I was keeping the car to drive home. They waived the drop-off fee. Two other people from Utah rode home with me.

I remember Rick telling the story of their trip back home. There were some devs from Maine who drove back home too. Some of the Softies were stranded at the hotel. The local paper ran a photo of them lounging by the pool. I think Randy Brown was one of them, but I don't remember the others.

I won't be at ThatConference. I've seen the lineup and it looks great, but things are really busy at work right now.


>I was not at that DevCon but remember that a lot of people got stranded in San Diego with U.S. airspace locked down for several days. (If you're going to be stranded, you may as well be stranded in San Diego). One of my favorite FoxGang stories is about Whil Hentzen and three other guys renting a van and driving back to the midwest. Steve Sawyer was one of them, I think Rick Schummer was another, and I forget who the fourth was. The cool part about the story was one of them (Steve?) had a router in his suitcase. They set up a "van LAN" and were emailing each other from within the van, LOL.
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>I went with register.com as the blog host. I don't expect the click rate to be very high so am not worried about performance. Now all I have to do is have something to say ;-) Expect lots of puppy photos.
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>You aren't by any chance going to be at That Conference in Wisconsin Dells next month, are you? They have a pretty strong speaker list. And the Dells is always fun in the summer. (Tacky, but fun).
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