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With Laurel and Hardy, and a dash of Santana (this is one of the many reasons I love Patti Digh and her 37 Days blog, where I found this, much to my everlasting delight): ...

I'm too tired to write much tonight, sitting in the hallway outside my room because the WiFi still isn't working in my room (aside: I was checking e-mail in the hallway outside my room earlier tonight, and when I tried to get back into my room...

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Just getting around to this now, then I read Scott Briscoe's post and decided he already pulled out my favorite parts perfectly. So here's Scott's wrapup of Hamel's presentation: This is my bird, dammit. ...

(If perchance the fountain appears to be turned off, go ahead and give it a click and it'll start up again. If you want a full list of all the ASAE-related tweets, you also can do a search for #asae09 on Twitter.)

I tried doing this at PCMA this year, when they handed out pedometers and challenged attendees to track their steps, but kept forgetting to check. I'm going to try to remember to record them daily here at the ASAE conference. ...

OK, I only "heard" it through a tweet in the Hub, but loved it. From the diversity session: "talent goes where it is welcome" (via @david_ricciardi, @JoanEisenstodt) ...

You know, one thing about this economy is that, with everyone looking to reduce their travel costs and airlines shrinking their offerings, it's not impossible to get there from here, but it can take a while if you want to get there economically...

If, unlike the guy who unloaded his frustration surrounding media and governmental idiocy around meetings on his blog, you don't have a place to rant, and your congressman is already sick of hearing from you, here's some good news. ...

Check out Madigan Pratt's most excellent rant against the idiocy of recent media reports about the SSA spending on meetings, government officials who jump in without knowing what they're talking about, and I'm going to stop now before my blood...