Back
I'm back in San Francisco, after visiting Chicago and Urbana, IL. I saw Aaron, Biella, Micah, Brian, Vanessa, and Barbara Simons. I got to speak at Reflections/Projections 2003 on "How to Abuse Trusted Computing" and "Working Security for a Working Environment".
The Reflections/Projections and UIUC ACM people were really nice, and I had a great experience speaking at the conference.
Champaign Willard airport is the smallest airport I've ever been to. They have three airline counters and one terminal which is a single room with five gates. They are served by three airlines, with scheduled service to three cities. There is one baggage carousel. The people are very friendly and there are no lines for anything. (It's quite the astonishing contrast to fly from there to O'Hare, which is one of the three places you can possibly fly to from CMI. O'Hare is the largest airport I've been to, unless perhaps LAX is bigger.) Previously, the smallest airport I had been to was ONT, which feels about as big and about as busy as Bradley was when my family originally moved to Massachusetts.
The most amazing thing about Willard Airport is that the ticket agent didn't ask me what my destination was. That's because each of the three airlines operating from Willard flies only to one destination.
I'll try to get some pictures up when I get the camera back.
