So, I’m here at the Dublin Core conference. Hotel has free wi-fi, which coupled with Skype lets me chat to the kids before they go to bed without having to pay through the nose. The conference itself has wi-fi too but only port 80 seems to be open which means no email, webmail, skype, IRC or MSN. Blogging works though!
P.S. leave a message on this entry if you want to meet up.

Hi Ian. See you in the corridors no doubt!
http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/stuff/irc/irc.cgi is a CGI:IRC interface that currently lets you join any Freenode IRC channel (eg. #swig #foaf etc).
i spoke too soon. the channel seems hardcoded… still, it’s a start!