Don't miss out on this most special day of the year: Talk Like a Pirate Day! You can inventory your pirate tendencies (just call me The Cap'n and hand me a bucket of chum), wear a parrot on your shoulder, or just say "arrrrr" a lot. So release...

From a press release...

Still playing catch-up on all the stuff I've been hoarding since my Hartford trip. Here's one: The Closed Hotel Count in Louisiana is 160 Hotels, in Mississippi, 93 Hotels and in Alabama, 33 Hotels as of September 15, 2005...

Not surprisingly, Chicago is snapping up some choice dislocated meetings, including the 28,000-attendee American Academy for Orthopedic Surgeons annual conference, and the 4,500-person Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting. In a nice move, Chicago...