Short notice, I know, but I just got back from LinuxWorld ’06 in San Francisco. It was my first time as a business traveler and my first time traveling any great distance by myself (driving myself to and from Penn State when I lived in Pennsylvania hardly counts, nor does visiting my parents in Pennsylvania [...]

Apparently, having low blood sugar, skipping breakfast and giving blood makes you look so spectacularly unwell that you merit an ambulance ride. Woo. To be more precise, when a couple of women found me curled up on the bathroom floor, overheated and feeling more than a bit nauseous, they went ahead and called the paramedics [...]