Good news! I did a hard reboot and “bingo!” my AC power (I plead exhaustion for referring to it as DC in the previous post) started working again. I was starting to go into withdrawal, so I’m very thankful that I’m powered and connected again. Whew!

The “Legal” session was interesting and I would venture to say that more questions were raised than were answered.

Following that was a session lead by the conference host, Josh Hallett, that he titled, “Off The Record” and here’s  how  he described it in the program details:

This session will be an experiment. We’ll turn off our laptops and other recording devices and talk off the record about things we can’t blog about. For example have you ever started a post and then said, “I can’t post this”. Sometimes it’s emotional, other times it’s job security. You know you’ve been dying to get it off your chest. Now is your chance. This might be the best session, or the worst…we’ll see.

Now I could really identify with this! On both a professional and personal level there have been countless times that I either thought about a post subject or even started writing a post and decided that I just could not publish that particular entry. Either there would be a confidence broken, would be something related to my day job that would be detrimental to my continuing to be employed or it would be something that would be too personal or hurtful to family or friends. My solution has been to create a separate document to either write those entries to, or even just jot down a few key words or thoughts into, that document and one day I will either be able to publish it or use it in some other aspect of my writing, like short fiction or a magazine article.

Right now I’m in the “Tools” session and we’ve exhausted all the obvious jokes about that unfortunate title, but I’m learning and refreshing my knowledge about blogging tools, programs, etc.