OK, I'm up on the wifi at the Moscone again. It's kind of gratuitous, since I have internet access in the hotel room, but I like it. Something strikes me as cool about listening to WREK via the streaming at a nerdy science conference on a wireless link. One thing I have noticed is that since I did this stuff at Orycon, I installed ZoneAlarm. I'm getting alerts about every 30 seconds for various things. A second ago I just got an HTTP request from some external address. I think it is strongly possible that hackers know what range these event things are and they scan the living shit out of those IP addresses. I'm glad I have it on there. possibly difficult, and meeting new people quite painful. Somewhere in my early 20's that changed. Now I have no problem walking into a party where I know nobody and hanging out. I do that over and over at these SF conventions. I never made a conscious effort to do this, it just happened. There were no "social anxiety" excercises to do, and I took no Paxil to achieve this effect. I'm glad it went this way, because the old way sucked. ing nerdworthy," explained her friend, John Bartley, "it's a real mark of honor at place like this."

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