DevBlog

My hotel here in LA, the Wilshire Grand is not so grand. It probably was in it's day, but that day is long past. I would not recommend this hotel. When power came back on here in LA, something in the hotel failed and half the hotel was without power, including my room.

After roaming around the Convention Center for a while, I went back to the hotel. It was still light out, so I sat near the window and highlighted my conference schedule with the sessions I want to attend. Then I went out and found some dinner. Still no power when I got back, so I sat in the hotel bar, which did have lights, watched the first half of Monday Night Football. Since I was getting tired, I decided to go up to bed. I flipped the light switch to on, setup my battery-powered clock, opened the drapes, and went to sleep. About two hours later, the lights came on....flickered a bit...and stayed on. It did wake me up. I stayed up another couple of hours getting some work done, but the wireless in the room wasn't working. I hope it's just a result of the power outage and that it's working later today.

This morning I've had breakfast. It's a fairly common continental breakfast...eggs, potatoes, bacon, sausage, fruit, danish, bagels, etc. There is a three hour keynote set for this morning featuring Bill G and Jim Allchin, who is one of my favorite Microsoft execs. Stay tuned for more...