A friend of mine, Doyal Bryant, at UBL.org invited me to a private equity conference in New York this week. All in all, a good use of my time and I learned a lot as well. I also ran into an old friend, Jerry Schwartz, the owner of G.S Schwartz Public Relations (www.schwatz.com) who did the PR / IR for Saville Systems when we took it public in 1995. It's always good to run into old friends in unexpected places.