Originally Posted by ReggieDurango

Opening paragraph:
"It would be hard to imagine a more tedious annual conference, with panel debates on ?e-billing, best practices, stability and throughput? and much discussion of web analytics data and Ofcom regulation. Besides being so monotonously technical that by mid-afternoon at least two delegates are allowing themselves to listen with their eyes shut, their heads drooping forward, the atmosphere in the butterscotch-beige, windowless conference hall in the basements of an ugly Edgware Road Hilton is steeped in gloom."

Jeeeeze, that paints dull picture - but I would bet the reality of the conference was not at all as described.