>>>I am planning on attending Devcon this May. As I will be travelling from South Africa - Cape Town - I would like to share accomodation cost with a fellow dev con member in order to keep costs down. Please send me email at gan@iafrica.com if you can help. many thanks!!!!
>>>regards
>>>Ganasen Gounden
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>>You're taken care of. I'm a Florida resident so it's logical that I be a host ;-) ... read your email for details.
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>I just read your tag line. Does that mean you are a professional weirdo?

I forgot exactly what circumstances or profession that Thompson was referring to in the quote, but I've always believed that it certainly applies to programmers....in a sense, we're all professional weirdos because we're always being asked to address weird situations or come up with off-the-wall solutions :)