Thursday afternoon I arrived at the Crowne Plaza Hotel here in Nashua, N.H., to attend this year’s New Hampshire Liberty Forum. And I would have posted this yesterday morning, if it weren’t for Comcast.

Checking in was a breeze, unlike last year when the event was at a different hotel. That hotel inexplicably demanded government issued photo ID, which almost became a real problem.

I would have had this posted yesterday, except for a couple of technical problems. The first one was Comcast. The hotel provides free Internet service, with Wi-Fi in the common areas, and wired Ethernet in every room, provided by Comcast. And when something goes wrong, well, you have to call up Comcast. Friday morning I woke up, and sure enough, the wired Internet connection in my room was dead. And the Wi-Fi doesn’t reach quite as far as my room. It took three hours and two phone calls to Comcast’s technical support line somewhere in East Asia to get it fixed.

Then I discovered my non-linear video editing software has decided it wants to be buggy and not let me work with the clips I shot. So the videos I’ve published here today are closer to Dave Ridley style (he’s here, too) and are consequently of somewhat lower quality than I’d otherwise have. I still haven’t gotten that fixed, and don’t have time to do so until long after this event is over. So bear with me on the videos.

I dropped off my stuff and grabbed the video camera, and promptly went back downstairs to see who was already here. Immediately I ran into Declan McCullagh, who is libertarian enough that he would have come here on his own, even if he wasn’t writing for CNET News.com. Liberty Forum organizer Chris Lawless cracked the “DEC LAN” joke. I reminded him that it was “DECnet,” a technology I’ve actually had the displeasure of using, and would rather forget. Jon Maltz explained to Declan some of the details of the Ron Paul Revolution here in New Hampshire.

Then it was down the hall, where Ian Bernard was setting up the remote equipment to broadcast three consecutive nights of his nationally syndicated radio show (and podcast) Free Talk Live.

Then it was off to the reception, hosted by Sakal/CAI, where owner Jason Osborne told me about the Free Talk Live engraved iPod he’s giving away to one lucky person at the Liberty Forum. You can hang out here with the people I hung out with: Libertarian Party presidential candidate George Phillies, State Rep. Dan Itse (R-Rockingham), talk radio host and author Gardner Goldsmith, science fiction/horror author F. Paul Wilson who wrote the Repairman Jack series, and over the course of the weekend, many more. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is around here somewhere, too, though I haven’t run into him yet.

Still more to come this weekend, including Friday’s events, which I should have up later today.