So it’s a testament to the complete insanity of my life lately that my last post was over 10 days ago, and it was about the event I just arrived at. I’m planning a future entry on what’s been going on at work and at school, because I think both are interesting, but here’s a preview: rolling out a new server platform the day you launch a fundraising campaign? Don’t. Really.
I finally made it to Boston just under an hour ago, and to my “hotel”:http://www.hotelatmit.com/ 30 minutes after that. Perhaps if they give the bankrupt airlines an “extra 14 years”:http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2005-10-07T153226Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-218449-1.xml&archived=False to pay back their loans they can also require them to accurately report delays *before* the scheduled take off time. I knew it was a bad sign when my flight was scheduled to leave at 3:40PM, and they moved another flight to the same gate, taking off at 3:30 (“No, Mr. Yergler, your flight looks good.”). We were later told that we were waiting on a plane from Dallas (or was it Denver?) that took off 15 minutes *after* we were scheduled to leave Indianapolis. How that’s defined as “looking good” is beyond me.
So tomorrow is the start of the “Gnome Hacker Summit”:http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005, although why “Luis is looking forward to meeting me”:http://tieguy.org/blog/index.cgi/479 is quite a mystery. OK, sleep, then up early to fix lingering bugs in the website.