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November 13, 2006
Apologies to My Friends in Georgia
Yesterday I was forced to cancel my appearance at the Georgia Education Technology conference this week. While the rest of my family was grieving the loss of my father-in-law, I spent much of the weekend frantically trying to save the files on my laptop, which appears to have a dying hard drive. Because I'm in Denver I don't have access to my backup drives and other tools. After many hours of frustration it became quite clear that most of the presentations I'd put together for Atlanta were a total loss, each reporting an unrepairable disk error. I could now either skip the wake and funeral to rebuild all of my presentations from scratch or I could cancel. So I canceled.
Nonetheless, I feel terrible about pulling out of a conference at the last minute, particularly one where I was expected to present multiple sessions. So I'd like to apologize to both the conference organizers and the educators attending the conference. I was so looking forward to participation but there's simply no way I can do it. I hope you understand given this terrible convergence of circumstances. -andy
Posted by acarvin at November 13, 2006 9:04 PM
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