Dateline: Orlando

Reporting from the massive conference center in Orlando. It's hot as hell outside, over-air conditioned inside, and if this isn't the least interesting city in the US, I don't want to see what is. I've been living on three simultaneous tracks the last couple of days here: On track one is the conference, which is going great. I just left a big panel on technology trends which included such information luminaries as Clifford Lynch, Roy Tennant and Walt Crawford (who drops by here now & then - Hi Walt!).

On track two is my family: My mother from Miami & my aunt from Tampa have converged upon this place to see me. So in between meetings and programs, I'm taking meals with family. It's great, but also distracting to be going back and forth between these two worlds.

And over on track three is the bug I picked up in Oregon, still congesting my head and sending me into occasional coughing fits one week later. This is also most distracting, but with sudafed and coffee, all things are possible.

Being under the weather now reminds me that this since I moved to California, this is the first time I've had so much as a cold. The Bay Area's been good to me in so many ways.

I fly back tomorrow. Hurray.