Saturday, March 27. 2004

Airports, and flying, suck.

Right now I am sitting in the Montreal Airport at one of those little Internet booths, waiting for my flight to leave.. I should be in the air by now, but apparently the flight has been delayed twice already.. This means I'll miss my connection in Chicago, and who knows how long I'll have to wait there for my flight. The lady behind the counter could not have been more rude to me either. She couldn't understand that I needed to get back home and wanted to know if there was any way to re-book, etc. -- she was too busy complaining about how the flight delay meant she had to stick around to her boss on the phone.

Here's a tip: Never fly Air Canada.

The reason I am in Montreal, for those of you who weren't paying attention, is for the PHP Quebec conference. Although I was only supposed to give one talk on my Tidy extension for PHP, I ended up doing a graphics talk as well because one of the speakers was a no-show. Both talks went amazingly well, as did the entire conference. This was my first time in Montreal, and its amazing how absolutely different this region of Canada is compared to the rest of the country. Everyone here speaks French, which can make things a little difficult, but the city itself can only really be described as sort of a French-America. In all I had a great time, and hopefully I'll be back soon!

Oh, and since I can't really do it now, I will be putting my slides and materials for the talks I gave online when I have access to a real computer. For now, I've spent three dollars -- I think its time to get offline ;)