One reason I still enjoy doing these live events is the sheer unpredictability. Just when you think you have it nailed down...
So it was a "dark and stormy night" last night in Portland, and two minutes after the webinar started, we had a power blip and brownouts here in the ODwire.org NewsPlex(TM) (ie, my basement.)
A couple of years ago, I installed heavy-duty sine-wave UPS units here for all the networking equipment and servers in the house. When I installed them, I kept thinking to myself ("self, this is ridiculous overkill. What are the odds of the power going out during a webinar?")
Looks like my paranoia finally paid off.
So if you're listening to the archive and you notice that I sound a little distracted as i'm kicking the talks off, that's the reason -- I had red lights blaring in my face, with countdown timers telling me when the backup power would be all gone.
Fortunately, clean power was restored very quickly. But that was a fun couple of minutes....