Awe man Julie,

Wish I knew you were coming, I'd have taken you out for lunch (or one of those $9 expo hot dogs) Give you a little hard time about your old BBS days. ;)

Hope you had fun. Did you visit the Metron?

Maybe you will be back for Linux World in August. ;)

Yes the roomba is a great vacuum. I have 3 pets that excel at dropping hair everywhere. Roomba once a day fixes that.

As for the hardwood. Here is a solution that worked, without the need to go crazy.

Get nice strong double stick foam tape. (not the super thick kind) and the rubber sticky matt stuff most people put in there cupboards to keep things from sliding around. Cut it out in shape of the base bottom. use tape to stick it. This material will not slide on a hardwood floor or lanolium, (not sure about tile) IT provides enough tracking to keep the base from moving.

Also remember to program your walls, They do work. I use them to keep Roomba out of the bathroom, he hungers for frilly bathmats. He also has an attraction to my iPod cable. He has eaten it more then once.

Although Roomba is a bit louder then I care for, I have him vacuuming while i am at work. Entertain the cats.

Want to drive your cats nuts? I taped a laser pointer to the top of roomba, turning him into a cat torturing device. Quite fun.

I've played spot, Fun game if you like looking at those images. Good way to kill some time. There are many pack addons for free on there website. Some are MUCH harder then the default pack that comes.

I however do not like the fact you have to install them on main memory. Rather the expansion packs stay on the card.

I hope you have enough lens caps for all of us. I'm hungry too.