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June 22, 2003
Days of Geekdom
I'm sitting in an airport bar in Seattle with a nice big beer and about 2 hours to go before my flight to San Francisco takes off. This is what happens when traffic is clear from Ballard to SeaTac, and security is (strangely enough) on the ball. Of course, what really saved me was doing "Web Check-In" with Alaska Airlines. You have to have a boarding pass these days to even get into the queue for the security checkpoint, which means going to the ticket counter - which mean a line. Especially annoying if you've packed well and don't have to check anything. Web check-in got me a boarding pass online, so I went straight to security, breezed through that, and now I'm drinking beer. Life could be worse.
All that said, the geekdom is that I'm typing this - online - from an airport bar. $7 bought me all-you-can-eat WiFi access for the entire airport; a small price to pay for my net.addiction.
From here, I head to San Francisco, where I'll be until Saturday morning. The Apple WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) is Mon-Fri, you see, and I'm heading to CA to commune with my tribe.
This is my first WWDC, and promises to be a big one if the rumor mill is to believed. In any case, there is supposed to be 'net access at the hotel (the Argent) and WiFi all over the WWDC, so expect regular blogging (although the WWDC seminars are, for the most part, considered NDA).
It feels strange, leaving Jenni and Nathan behind - I haven't traveled since a visit back to Ohio back in Jan 2002, and the longest I've been away from home and family in the past year has been the length of a work day. And it's not always easy going to work in the mornings, with Nathan starting to get all happy, smiley, and anxious to play.
But here we go. The Days of Geekdom begin...
Posted by jim at June 22, 2003 04:32 PM