A German in L.A.

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

So, this Sunday morning the voyage begins...

My destination: Los Angeles, CA, attending the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference. Since this is my second US visit in 2 years, I must say, my job has its perks.

The conference looks pretty busy - and I still don't feel like I have a clue what to expect, what sessions I'll attend and when I'll try to "socialice" or "network" (or how to do the latter - hey, I am just a simple software developer, not an executive or something like that!)

Anyway, aside from the conference, I'll have two days "off" that I can use to visit LA. I already asked around on Circvs Maximvs, and if everything works out, I might even meet a few, which would be cool. I wonder if there are also any EN Worlders in L.A. that might want to meet me.
(If my schedule on the PDC is unclear, it's worse for the two free days. I have some theoretical options I could go for, but nothing definite, nothing researched...)

Thanks to my newly acquired mobile phone, I should be able to keep myself up to date on the web even when in LA, and the hotel is supposed to have free wireless access, too.

 

[WhatGravitas]

Have fun, mate!

Cheers, LT.

 

[Relique du Madde]

So, this Sunday morning the voyage begins...
SNIP!

Anyway, aside from the conference, I'll have two days "off" that I can use to visit LA. I already asked around on Circvs Maximvs, and if everything works out, I might even meet a few, which would be cool. I wonder if there are also any EN Worlders in L.A. that might want to meet me.

SNIP!

I'm 30min - 2 hours south of LA (depending on time and location of your conference). Yeah.... traffic is that bad.

Send me a PM or poke me in the HIVE and we'll see if we can meet up.

Wow.. that sounds dirty..

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

woohoo, I am at the airport in Hamburg! I am using my new phone to post.

 

[Protagonist]

woohoo, I am at the airport in Hamburg! I am using my new phone to post.

good luck and have a nice trip!

 

[drothgery]

I'm 30min - 2 hours south of LA (depending on time and location of your conference). Yeah.... traffic is that bad.

It's at the LA Convention Center. Sooner or later I'm going to manage to go to PDC, but I haven't yet.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

The Wireless at my hotel is terribly bad. But at least at the PDC I have a good connection - not very surprising, right?

 

[Relique du Madde]

The Wireless at my hotel is terribly bad. But at least at the PDC I have a good connection - not very surprising, right?

Welcome to the US, the land of crappy wireless service.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Welcome to the US, the land of crappy wireless service.

Thanks, I've never had any better crappy wireless service!

 

[Relique du Madde]

Thanks, I've never had any better crappy wireless service!

Don't mention it, you see, many American utilities companies function on the principle that it's best not to fork over money to upgrade until they could do it cheaply and until there is demand (Ie if you live in the countryside and want DSL your screwed unless some developer starts building tract housing nearby). That of course is part of the reason why my family switched wireless carriers, since they said they were not planning to building any towers close to where we live (I live in a housing tract that is near state/oil conglomerate owned wetlands which will never be developed.).