The Power Of A Typo

I was reading a CNN story about a guy who ended up in Montana when he wanted to fly to Australia, and while my initial thought was the "hahahaha!" inner-monologue mocking, I remembered that I damned near booked myself airfare and hotels for Portland, Maine during the week of the O'Reilly Open Source Conference being held in Portland, Oregon. (I'd made the hotel reservations, and noticed when American Airlines, unlike the hotel web site, demanded clarification on my input of "Portland"... the hotel had simply fed me the first Portland hotel it could find, which also happened to be a convention center hotel, etc., etc.)

So instead I'll just say that this serves to underscore the power of a typographical error.