I have no memories myself, except a vague one of barricades being set up to keep protesters away from W. 

Was this a monumental crowd? 

One thing I am SURE sets this apart was the crowd singing, "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, good bye," as they waived goodbye as W left in the helicopter.  Amazing moment!

I hate to be paranoid, so could somebody tell me how it happened that in the middle of Obama's speech, the sound went off, followed the "required weekly test" message?  Then it stopped, and never went to the annoying beeping part, and the sound came back.  This was in Tampa Bay.  I think it bothered me because I happened upon some conspiracy theorist's youtube video about how on 9/11, there were training exercises scheduled, and those same exercises are scheduled for today (I swear I don't look for this stuff, it seems to find me).  My first thought was, "That nut job was right!" 

As for the speech, he certainly didn't go for the big applause-generating, crowd pleaser.  It was refreshing - no pandering.  I do hope he lives up to the ideals he described.

And I did like how the swearing in didn't go perfectly, though I'm not sure what exactly happened, as I do not have the oath of office memorized verbatim.  It looked like Obama was expecting something else;  maybe it was Roberts mistake.

Well, Happy Inauguration day all, and welcome to the brave new world!