I'm presenting the keynote at LoCA 2006 this year and on Monday I booked all of the flights, hotel and car parking required to get me there.

As it happens I'm away that week, but significantly closer to Dublin, and to a more convenient airport, to fly over in just under an hour. Everything, I thought, was organized.

Then I got an email today, just 36 hours after everything had been confirmed, to say that they were no longer able to fly out of that airport and it would change to another about an hour (by car) away.