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My last piece was the most intense piece I ever wrote. I had a great hotel room in Dam Square in Amsterdam. I spent three days there, and got into a total artist groove, or the most total that I've ever experienced. It's a richly colored city even though the weather was gray and rainy. I could see elements of Amsterdam in Madison, where I went to grad school 20 years ago. There is a little Amsterdam in San Francisco too, but I'm looking forward to going back to the real thing, in May, to the WWW9 conference where I and others will talk about distributed computing and the Web.