22 Jan 2004
Thu, 22 Jan 2004
Blogging From Vancouver
We got to Vancouver, BC last night on time, about midnight local time. The most curious part of the trip was the bizarre gauntlet being run by the Washington State Police at the border crossing at Blaine, WA. We approached Blaine on the I-5 running 70 MPH most of the way. When we got to Blaine, the speed limit dropped immediately to 35 MPH, I began slowing when I noticed that there was a strange-looking gauntlet ahead funneling all of the traffic into a single lane, which was full of wacky offset speedbumps. I pulled up to the checkpoint at which point I was informed of my error - 51 MPH in a 35 MPH zone and given a ticket for $173.
Welcome to Washington!
Fortunately, that was the only blip in an otherwise succesful trek. So I am listening to Ilia Alshanetsky talk about SQLite.
In general, the Vancouver PHP Conference seems like a good value with ~150 attendees and a number of luminaries.
I listened to the keynote and an Introduction to PHP by Rasmus Lehrdorf this morning. He was a very funny, entertaining speaker and I learned a lot in the process.
We are enjoying the local scenery and fantastic food. Lunch was an interesting chicken in indonesian peanut sauce with basmati rice.
We're headed to see ActiveState's offices here in Vancouver tonight. One of their developers tells me that it's a very cool office space. I'll get pictures if I can but I don't have any just yet. More later.
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