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I decided it was time to register for the 2010 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC´10) in Buenos Aires at the last minute...one day before the deadline. After all, the deadline for registration, if one was submitting a paper, was the next day. I call it just-in time-registration, whereas my wife calls it procrastination. Whatever it was called, I was clearly waiting until the last moment. My graduate student, who actually wrote the paper, was getting anxious, and I knew that it was time to knuckle down and go to the EMBC Web site and register, which I did. Unfortunately, it was a weekend, and so I did this from home. This meant that I had to access the Internet using a satellite Internet service provider (ISP), because digital subscriber line (DSL), cable, or wireless hot spots have not made it to our rural location. Our satellite service is slow, and so I knew that this registration process might take some time.