Click to see misleading headline. What the hell?
Our panel on Tuesday (at SxSW if you didn’t know already) is at 10am, and you should go. But, that’s not what I’m writing about now. Thanks to Upcoming, I found out that the Comedians of Comedy are playing Austin on the 14th!!! And, better yet, Flight of the Conchords is playing too, at the same place!!!! And it’s only \$15.50 to get in!!!!! Can you tell I’m excited? You know I’m going, right? You should totally come too!!\
No, really, you should. If you ask nice, I might even let you sit next to me.\
It’ll be a great way to celebrate what I’m sure will be a successful panel (it will be, it will be, it will be, it will be… really, it will).
This is me\
This is me today (I really do look this blurry in real life). If you see me wandering around the convention center, say “hi!” Hooray for SxSW!!
One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to be more independent.\
HA on me: Kevin is on his 4th business trip of the year and will be home less than half of the time between now and July.\
But I am very proud of him and am happy with the opportunities he is exploring. 🙂
I went to Target this morning to buy milk, juice, and some pants for Max. I ended up spending almost \$100 more than that though. Sheesh, Target is becoming just like Costco for me! I did buy Brian 3 pairs of shoes- sandals, pool shoes, and new tennis shoes- so I place all blame for the high bill on the kids (my new black flip-flops were not part of the problem, no siree).
We Heart Microformats\
I did this for Shawn’s E-Tech demo, and I liked it so much, I tweaked it a little bit and made it my desktop. If you’d like to use it as yours, you can.
A woman is suing Walgreen’s because of some remarks the pharmacy staff (unintentionally?) put on her pill bottles. Read about it here.\
This makes me chuckle and remember when I was trying to get a prescription of valium filled and the pharmacy kept me waiting over 2 hours. I kept thinking to myself, “Do they know what the prescription is for? Shouldn’t they try a little harder to get it to me?”
I can’t believe the governor of SD just signed a law making abortion illegal except in cases to save the mother’s life. WTH? While I am personally against the idea of abortion, I can’t imagine forcing a woman to gestate and deliver an unwanted fetus.\
The thing that confuses me the most is that this issue is questioning “when life begins,” which is a spiritual issue. (I think life = dna + soul. I am not sure when the soul enters the body, but I don’t think it happens at conception. Hence, a spiritual question, not a scientific one.) What happened to the idea of separation of Church and State?\
I am also personally against: open-marriage, separate checking accounts in a marriage, gambling, bottle-feeding, divorce, spanking, working mothers, motorcycles, alcohol, skipping immunizations, coffee, and many other things, but that doesn’t mean I am against their existence for others.\
Also, I know how the LDS Church feels about this issue, so I don’t need to be reminded. 🙂
Just a little reminder… I’ll be moderating the How to Convince Your Company to Embrace [Web] Standards at SxSW 2006 next Tuesday. If you’re going to be at the conference, please show up, even if it’s just to heckle. We’ll have our presentation online by the time we actually sit down to give the panel (but probably not too much before that). If you’re planning on attending our panel, please leave a comment!\
~~Also, I just got the e-mail that Shawn and my proposal for X-Tech was accepted! That means that I get to stay in Amsterdam for an extra week after the CSS Working Group meeting in May.~~\
UPDATE: We’re apparently not presenting at X-Tech. I’m not sure if we got the wrong e-mail first, but it certainly looked like an acceptance notice, but then came another much later in the day saying our proposal wasn’t accepted. Oh well. We can re-submit for “late breaking”, but I don’t know that I really need to bother with it.\
UPDATE Part 2: I am presenting at WWW2006!! I’m helping Bert out on the CSS part with a presentation on architecting CSS for syndicated content (and for the site including syndicated content). It should be fun, and another chance to show off some of the cool stuff we’re doing over in AIM land.\
We also submitted a proposal for the Developers Track at WWW2006, and may be helping out with the CSS piece as well.\
I can’t wait for SxSW. I just hope this jet lag/sinus infection combo is better by Thursday.
Time-Lapsed Sunset\
I finally got the pictures off the camera and will try to get them all up before leaving for Texas. I think this is my favorite one so far (I haven’t look at all of them yet – I have to work and stuff). It’s a two second exposure of the last moments of sunset on the day I arrived. I was really tired (didn’t sleep on the plane) and just waiting until a reasonable hour before crashing. I was so happy to be back in France, yet entirely exhausted. I love Mandelieu. I got to know the area a little better this time because I rented a car, and it hasn’t made me love it any less. The people are friendly. The food is amazing, and the scenery is breathtaking. You should go.
