I'm going to start by saying that if you didn't make it to SCaLE this year you missed quite an event. Everything about this event was top notch. The Westin has the most comfortable beds in the world. I am qualified to make that statement if you need to know my qualifications, feel free to contact me by any means you have at your disposal. Oh, before I go any further, I want to thank Nate Hutchins (hutchnate) because if it hadn't been for his proactive nature I wouldn't have been able to go. Ya see, it was his idea in the first place and he drove. So we left Thursday afternoon and drove most of the way to LA and stopped for the night in some small town and slept on beds that were about as comfortable sleeping on hard wood floors without a mattress pad. Anyway, the Chevy Equinox is a great road trip vehicle in that it's comfortable and gets good gas mileage. navigation was brilliantly handled by my Motorola Droid using Google maps/navigation. If I haven't said it yet, Android rocks!. OK, here's the main point: SCaLE was/is executed wonderfully. Every speaker I sat in on was great and there were so may options that I wished the Expo was a full week. There were 5 presentation sessions per day with 4 - 6 different presentations going on simultaneously. Aside from the main speakers there was UbuCon all day Friday among other side events. I mean, really, there was so much to do that it was hard to make decisions on who/what to sit in on. It's getting late and I may add more to this later, but please understand one thing about SCaLE - you should make plans to go next year.