What was everyone talking about at MEDC today? The Venetian Hotel, where MEDC is being held and most of the attendees are staying, is going to shut off the water--all the water--to the hotel rooms from midnight to 4AM.
This is going to be interesting--not just for the MEDC attendees, but particularly for the Mix07 goers. Why? The Mix attendees (which is a Microsoft conference also being held at the Venetian) is having their big party tonight and I imagine that there will be more than one attendee that's going to fill up with a favorite beverage or two, find their way back to their room late in the night, and then, you know. Flavors of college life are going to return for many. This is going to be fun.
Update: It's 6AM and still no water. Ooops. Just called the front desk. They say the cold water is supposed to be on and the hot water is to be running in 10 minutes. However, it clearly isn't. Word is that a major pipe burst whlie they were making their planned repair. I'm not sure what the original repair was supposed to be . This is going to be interesting. Can you say people are going to be extra smelly at Mix07 and MEDC? :-).
What's even more intereresting to me in all of this is: Where are the bloggers? Did the conversation end after 24 or was that 48 hours? Heh. No news on Twitter either. There's nothing yet on the Mix news feed too. Yeah, it's only 6AM, however, does this mean the heavy duty bloggers are already gone? Hmmm. I guess we'll find out in the next hour or so. Most everyone is up and around by 7AM for the conference.
Update #2: It's just before 7AM and the water is back on. Whew. I just took a walk around the casino and sure enough there was water down there. I don't know if they had water all night. The restaurants all appear to be opening on schedule and I passed dozens of the Mix staff walking towards the convention center. There are no big lines of people at the front desk either. I thought I'd see one or two asking what's going on. Most everyone there seemed to be checking out--including Don Dodge. (Doh! I should have asked Don for his conference pass. Nah, he's too recognizable. Still the hallway for me it looks like. Heh.) Looks like everything is going to proceed as normal.


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