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I was at the Portland Hilton yesterday, and I walked up to the concierge to ask about
Theater tickets. And he stared. He started getting some brochures and
he said..."Do you have a blog?"
Stupified I was. Flabbergasted,
truly. Have I risen from "C"-level .NET Celebrity to full-on Tanya-Harding-"B"-level
.NET Celebrity through the power of blogging? Not quite. ;)
As the concierge at an important Portland landmark he had to use the Brick Finder
to locate named bricks at the Pioneer Courthouse Square (folks
paid for the square by purchasing engraved bricks) and used the BrickFinder, a small
.NET app I did YEARS ago as a volunteer gig. He followed the link to my blog
from that site and RSS-subscribed me (he uses Newsgator.)
If THAT'S not weird enough, turns out he's David
Schargel, the former President of Aportis Technologies! A few years ago,
David was fully the shiznit in the Palm space, as Aportis Doc was the #1 eBook Reader
on the Palm and Brain Forest dominated the Outliner market. He even knew about
GlucoPilot and its sale to HealtheTech.
He's long ago sold off his companies and when the concierge gig opened up (apparently
someone has to die before these jobs open up) David, a Portland Historian, jumped
at the chance! Ever the businessman, he also started Portland
Walking Tours providing historical context on walking tours of the Rose City.
Very cool. I ended up talking to him for like 45 minutes. If you are down
at the Hilton, tell David I said hi.
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