Wow, my drive was longer, but cheaper too. I think the tolls only cost like $8, but there were like eight of them on the round trip, more annoying than expensive.

But next time I'll definitely consider taking the Amtrak and getting some rest on the way so I have more energy for pizza, steak, and the other stuff I was too beat for ;)

I was impressed by the breakfast spread on both days too. The wifi seemed ok for me most of the time, but you could tell the quality of the network by the number of Tweets. It would be interesting to see a graph of the #wcchicago tag over the weekend to see just when the spikes were.

I also liked Micah's presentation the most I think, especially about keeping expectations! Just watched his presentation at Big Omaha, really dug that too.

Of course it was great to hear the state of the word in person. I found it interesting that Matt said "the goal of WordPress is to be invisible". That is one of the things that drew me to WordPress. With other platforms like Drupal or PHP-Nuke back in the day, unless the designer really does a great job, it is pretty easy to spot what it is built on. It just seems easier to break out of that mold with WordPress to create something truly original.