Chicago PDML and Adobe Max 2007 Conference

[pnstenquist at comcast.net]

Are you staying at the Congress Hotel? That's where my jeep was stolen from the valet a couple of years ago. But it's a decent hotel for the money. My undergrad alma mater, Roosevelt University, is across the street in the old Auditorium Hotel building. Have fun.
Paul
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From: Mark Roberts <msroberts01 at ysu.edu>
> OK, I got myself signed in at the conference yesterday. Bob Sullivan 
> drove me down to the convention center where we found the west-side 
> entrance blocked off. Around the east side we found lots of people and 
> some prominent Adobe banners down at one end. Of course, the real 
> entrance was at the other end. Doh! Walked back and got in but couldn't 
> find registration. One of the officials gave me directions: Up two 
> escalators, over to the other side of the building, down two escalators 
> and turn left. Which put me right at the west side of the conference 
> center which we couldn't drive to directly because it had been blocked 
> off.
> 
> Scattered all over the place were "Adobe PDF Kiosks". Couldn't even 
> guess what a "PDF Kiosk" might be as I hustled back (up two escalators, 
> across the building and down two escalators) to the festivities. 
> (Meaning "food and booze"). BTW: When I registered for the conference, 
> the web forms I filled in had a prominent section asking about special 
> dietary needs: Vegan, vegetarian and a couple of others. About a week 
> before the conference I received an email update about my "vegetarian" 
> selection. It basically said "We're serving everything buffet style so 
> just don't eat stuff with meat in it". How helpful.
> 
> I checked on the shuttle service they provide to downtown and 
> discovered the good news is that it stops at the Hilton just a block 
> down from the hotel where I'm staying. Cool. But they only run the 
> shuttles for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, so it's 
> an all-day thing or nothing if you're traveling by shuttle. Other good 
> news about my hotel, though: It's right next door to Columbia College, 
> which houses the Museum of contemporary Photography. Of course it opens 
> after the shuttle buses leave in the morning and closes before they 
> come back, so I may not be able to go in, but I can at least peer in 
> the windows as I go by.
> 
> Saw some preliminary presentations during the opening festivities last 
> night. The main theme seems to be "Don't ever use 100k of bandwidth 
> when you can convey the same information with 10Meg". 
> 
> I discovered what a PDF Kiosk is! It's a computer with and Internet 
> connection. i can walk up and log in with my conference ID and password 
> and surf the net free for as long as my legs hold up - they're set at a 
> height you can only use while standing and there a conspicuous absence 
> of chairs of the correct height (or indeed any height). Still don't 
> know why they're called "PDF" kiosks.
> 
> Summary of event so far: Typical Adobe user interface.
> 
> 
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