7:30 flight from SEA-TAC, at least a short one to LA. I was a late registrant to the event, thus could not find a place in one of the conference hotels. I was quite hopeless to find a place to stay at, and then I found this hotel. It is in a neighborhood...

I was about to move to a different team within Microsoft when I had started my technical blog on MSDN. Then, I moved on and started to work on a new technology Microsoft is about to announce in a couple of days during PDC 2005. I needed to keep silent...