Kevin's Weblog

We flew into Portland yesterday afternoon and proceeded to hide in the hotel room from the 104 degree heat. Yikes! Around 10PM it finally cooled down enough to venture outside for a trip to the local supermarket. Oddly, we had to call down to the front desk to get a mini-fridge for the room.

The conference wireless isn’t set up yet (not too surprising), so I ordered the in-room internet access for the weekend. I’ve never actually used one of these crazy hotel internet services before. At first, I thought it wasn’t working because you have to open your browser and do some wierdness there first before you can make connections on any other ports. For a moment I was worried that they thought that "the Internet" only included port 80, but after clicking though some usage agreement nonsense, my mail and ssh opened up.

Today, I think we’re exploring the town. Tomorrow, mondo croquet, Powell’s, and maybe the brewer’s festival if the weather is cool enough.