I had said that I was going to blog CIL, and I apologize that I wasn’t able to do it. Let me explain:

I had and still have serious doubts about having a professional blog, and since I’m still so new at this, I decided I wasn’t ready to register as one of the conference bloggers. I was planning to blog unofficially as the conference went on, and maybe post my blog to the wiki. Unfortunately, once I got there it was clear that there was no wireless available except to bloggers. It was a good conference, but personally I had much higher expectations for on site access. So I planned to register that night when I went to the hotel, which did have free wireless.

Then I got a massive stomach flu, which completely prevented me from doing anything at all on Thursday and left me drained and shaky for Friday. I got over it quickly, but it added to general travel and conference exhaustion.

I’ll try to put up some general impressions in the next few days, but being gone left me behind at work and I’m still catching up. I will post again soon, and I have high hopes for actually starting the im reference project after some great presentations. Keep checking, I haven’t forgotten about this blog entirely!