The flight to Newark was uneventful, and the plane was only half full. The SuperShuttle to the Hilton and up to our room, where WiFi is $9.95 per 24 hour period. Not bad WiFi, actually, if a little pricey.
In the next couple of days I’ll be meeting representatives of several different companies, anxious to push their new and upcoming products and keeping up with lots of old friends in the business. I’ll be writing about for the next couple of months, in my column, but will try to give some preliminary insight here.
Monday I’ll have lunch with remnants of the gang from the late, still lamented Counsel Connect pre-Web based inter-lawyer communications system conceived more than a decade ago by Steve Brill and David Johnson. Some of us still trade political and recretational thoughts on a couple of Delphiforums discussion groups. (If you are a lawyer, and interested, drop me a line for access information.) Steve won’t be lunching with us but David, who teaches CyberLaw or some such at NYLS, will. Should be fun reminiscing.
(Counsel Connect, for those who never heard of it, was originally accessed through a private dial-up telephone network, at about 9600 bps, with proprietary software running on MS-DOS. Yes, Virginia, before Iinternet Access was a given, and before Windows. It never made any money, as far as I know, but the concept was visionary and the technology, however kludgy, was far ahead of its time.)
Today is quiet, some time with my Manhattan - based daughter, a musesum or two, previews of the Pajama Game with Harry Connick, Jr, this evening. Then to work tomorrow. It will be raining, but then I’ll spend most of my time at the Hotel.
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