Now I'm back in the UK, after being in the extremly cold Chicago for 5 days.

SES '05 was really good, I would definately recomend it*.

Some of the Highlights:

• Mike Grehan - Fantastic speaker - Even better comic (See www.mikegrehan.com)!!!
• Heather Lloyd-Martin (As I'm British, her accent is cool, is it southern? And she puts tons of efforts and energy into it)
• Danni Sullivan - Greate sense of humor - Great talker.
• Seeing MSN, Yahoo, Google and AskJeeves talking together - They are a good set of blokes!

Getting back to the UK was harder than expected - When I left the Hilton (at the end of SES '05), I got the taxi to take me back to my hotel (a couple of miles away), and then I got my bag, and went to the Airport. It was snowing lightly on the way to the airport, but the snow got heavier and heavier - Next thing we know is that the crew are running late as they are stuck in traffic.

So, to cut a long-story short, the plane was delayed 3.5hrs (including the 40minute de-icing process).

*Providing what I learnt actually works!