Chicago PDML and Adobe Max 2007 Conference

[ann sanfedele]

and you didn't even get to the oroginal Pizzaria Uno's it looks like --

Where was the convention center?  where were you staying?  Old Chicago 
girl wants to know
seems to me that kind of thing is always a mess - Adobe doesn't own the 
chaos :)

Welcome back

ann


Mark Roberts wrote:

>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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