>>>Hi All
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>>>Got all my last confirmations for Devcon, hotel, airfare, etc....last year I had to cancel less than 3 days before the conference due to client emergency....Also was lined up to attend several years ago for the first Orlando DevCon but also had to cancel with days to spare.
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>>>Anyone know any appeasement rituals to keep the gods of fickle IT issues from pooping on my DevCon this year? :-)
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>>Turn off your pager and fax machine. Then put your phones on auto-forward to voice mail. :)
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>Dropping the pager a couple of times is even MORE successful. Then you can swear you had it on. Also, be sure you don't listen to that voice mail.

Removing the battery from the pager and replacing it with a known, dead battery is much greater insurance that you won't be disturbed during DevCon, and you won't need to buy a new pager after you return. Remember, a dead battery is a hardware problem; programmers can't be expected to fix such things themselves...