{"id":259,"date":"2005-01-31T22:45:45","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T03:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=259"},"modified":"2005-01-31T22:58:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T03:58:53","slug":"emerging-tech-filled-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/emerging-tech-filled-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Tech; Filled Hotel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all reved up to head out to San Diego in a little over a month to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreillynet.com\/etech\">O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Emerging Technology Conference<\/a>. I lined up all my various discounts and got <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreillynet.com\/cs\/et2005\/view\/e_spkr\/416\">Tim<\/a> to swear to his staff that I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomc.unc.edu\/directories\/faculty\/jones.html\">a faculty member<\/a> so&#8217;s I don&#8217;t have to go through the hassle of faxing a bunch of verifications. (Thanks Tim I wasn&#8217;t really asking for that but I appreciate it). I got lined up to visit with <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreillynet.com\/cs\/et2005\/view\/e_spkr\/521\">Cory<\/a> and with Tim and was chatting with <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/\">Doc<\/a> on AIM as I was trying to register at the <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreillynet.com\/pub\/w\/36\/hotel.html\">Westin Hotel<\/a> where the block of rooms for the conference was supposedly being held til February 18. The big word in the previous sentence is <em>&#8220;supposedly.&#8221;<\/em> I got back a message saying the block of rooms was entirely taken! Must be a broken reservation program, says I. I tell Doc who opens another AIM with Sara W of O&#8217;Reilly. Who tells us sure enough the conference is filling up fast and the hotel filled even faster!<br \/>\nThere is no room for me or for Doc or for anyone registering after today. The good O&#8217;Reilly folks were surprised too and promise to have a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreillynet.com\/pub\/w\/36\/hotel.html\">alternative hotels on the website tomorrow.<\/a><br \/>\nThe question is less whether I&#8217;ll be booked in a dive, but whether where ever I stay will have wireless, broadband, or any net.connections. Anyone familiar with the Horton Plaza area in San Diego? Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaslamp.org\/\">the Gas Light area<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all reved up to head out to San Diego in a little over a month to go to O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Emerging Technology Conference. I lined up all my various discounts and got Tim to swear to his staff that I&#8217;m a faculty member so&#8217;s I don&#8217;t have to go through the hassle of faxing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-foo-camp","category-general","category-information-commons","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}