I got my hotel upgraded today. I’m meeting with Lance and John the rest of the week so they decided I should be in the same location as them. Good thing too. The Holliday Inn is a dump compared to the Omni. Everything is cherrywood with gold trim, free WiFi in the room, the sodas in the fridge even cost an extra buck! Fancy schmancy this place is. Too bad they couldn’t have switched me earlier.

Ok, I’ve been here for a few days now. I’ve seen most of the sights, ran my camera battery down twice and I still have more pictures to take. One thing that really stands out to me is that I’m here by myself. People always tell me that when I go someplace and come home with pictures that there are none of me. Duh! I go alone! I’ve never taken a trip with someone.

Well, I arrived in DC this morning at about 7:30, took a cab that cost $40 to my hotel, ordered room service and took a shower. Oh yea, my luggage didn’t arrive. Nice huh? The airline said it’s not lost, they know where it is, it’s just not here. Should be arriving around 3:30 today, and I’m guessing it’ll be delivered to my hotel around 5 or so. Doing my hair was interesting without gel and a brush.

UPDATE: You should really be using Avahi now. Don’t use this. UPDATE: The command line switches have changed in newer versions of Apple’s mDNS code. Make sure you read the README. I had someone on slashdot ask me how to do this, so here it is. How to set up Rendezvous services on Linux (or other UNIX like OS). Firstly, this is only to help the mac find the Linux stuff, not the other way around.

Ok, so I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to allow anonymous ftp access on Mac OS X recently. This was a stupid mistake. There are a number of websites out there that describe some lame way of faking it. What I should have done in the first place is read the ftpd man page. Duh. This is UNIX after all, and the man page makes it clear.