The first leg of the journey was a Southwest flight to LAX.   That flight was as uneventful as always.  It seems like I have conditioned myself to sleep on the Phoenix - LA flights over the past 6 months, because I was sound asleep a few minutes after takeoff.  The only difference on this flight (other than flying to LAX instead of Burbank) was that I had to check my pack.  The backpack weighed in at nearly 50 pounds.  The scary part is that the pack has capacity for quite a bit more stuff.   It earned a "Heavy" sticker from the gate agent.    

Once in LA I walked from the Southwest terminal to the International Terminal.  There is such a noticeable difference between the two.  Just walking in the International Terminal you get so many different languages.  It also seems much more crowded.   Many people have huge suitcases and boxed up steroes and microwaves.  

After finally getting checked in I made my way to the "Business Class Lounge" and found a wireless connection, and here I am.

LAX - Taipei departs in one hour.

Omar, Scott Hanselman and the other contributors to the dasBlog project have released version 1.7, just in the nick of time for me to setup a blog.  

I had used a previous version with a lot of problems.   I read Scott Hanselman's blog on a daily basis and was amazed at the performance improvements he was able to get in the 1.7 enhancements.  I decided to wait as long as I could to get the 1.7 release, and if not then install 1.6.   At the last possible moment I noticed that 1.7 was out.