We have been out in Seattle since Monday for the 2007 Educause conference, which ended yesterday. It was a good conference, highlight by keynote speeches by Doris Kearns Goodwin, who spoke about Lincoln's leadership qualities, and Bruce Scheier, a security expert who talked about the top ten issues he saw facing us on the IT security front. The bad news is he thinks it's going to get worse before it gets better and he proposed some fascinating reasons why, all getting back to economics and human psychology.
Afterwards, we spent the afternoon wandering around downtown Seattle, which is quite attractive. We had a bowl of award-winning clam chowder from Pike Place Chowder and then we wandered around the Pike Place Market, enjoying sampling the area honey which was quite tasty. Then, we hooked up with fellow conferees Jenn, Jim, and Brian and walked over to the Olympic sculpture garden which was located up the sound about a mile and a half. It looks like the shoreline of the sound has been rather recently redone into condos/apartments and restaurants. After the sculpture garden, we headed up the hill to the Space Needle and since it was a clear and sunny day, paid the $16 to go up. Two thoughts: the views were stupendous and Mt. Rainer is a very big mountain.
On our way back to our hotels, we stopped into a wine bar and had a glass of wine, enjoying the sunshine streaming into the room. We all agreed that we could be sitting in parts of New York or San Francisco or Oakland. Probably not Atlanta, though.
Today we're going to do some shopping and visit the Seattle Public Library.
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