I’m back from California and Mashup Camp [tags, photos]. I just want to bitch about a few things:

• noise abatement laws make it very incovenient to fly from SFO to Toronto. You cannot leave SFO between (basically) 4 in the afternoon and 10 PM at night because you would land in Toronto between 12 and 6 AM. For the business traveller, this means you’re pretty well stuck on the red eye. Blech.
• Henry’s High Life doesn’t make a great rib anymore. The love just isn’t there.
• Californians have no idea how to drive.
• The Palo Alto Sheraton is too expensive for the quality of the room they’re giving you (I may just stay at the airport Westin next time).
• You’d think for all the money Google has, they’d do something innovative with their buildings. I did a brief tour and I’m sorry: it looks like a modern geek-factory distopia to me. Wow, you didn’t put in ceiling tiles! How clever. (On the other hand, two big monitors per-developer rocks).
• Oh sure, have Demo Camp on the same day.

That’s all the negatives. All the positives may take a couple of hours to type in: Mashup Camp was the best conference I ever attended.