By way of 
liralen's adventures pages, I discovered ceej's site. It's been a long time since I've been in touch with her. It turns out she wrote something about Google in her blog also. Harmonic convergence, perhaps?
It has been about 15 years since I'd met them for the first time. Perhaps this is what inspired my dream last night. I had a dream about someone who I was involved with for a few weeks around the time of the Usenix con that I met liralen. In the dream, I remember my ex was wearing a red dress with a green towel around her shoulders. We were shopping in a large department store which is where she got the towel. I don't remember the rest of the dream. (I don't usually write my dreams down, but I tend to have very vivid, and sometimes lucid dreams.)
nostalgic 