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BlogOrlando
October 01, 2007

My weekend was pretty action-packed. On Thursday night, I flew to Orlando to attend BlogOrlando, a “social media” unconference at Rollins College. I wish I could have flown in earlier, then I would have been able to attend the crazy pre-event events that everyone was raving about the next day, but that was not in the cards with all of the travel I had scheduled.

Friday was the day of the event, and I managed to show up early enough to catch the opening, which I didn’t know if I was going to be physically able to do, having been up until 3am the previous day with all of the airline mishaps.

Watching Mark Jaquith at BlogOrlando
September 28, 2007

Mark Jaquith is on stage at blogOrlando presenting WordPress, answering questions. It’s nice to have a dev doing a presentation on the east coast. Very personable guy.

I encourage you other bloggers to get out and meet some of the folks that are involved in you software’s development. Everyone’s really approachable, and sometimes it’s nice to get out from behind the impersonal communication of the mailing list to get a feel for what people are really thinking.

Delay, Delay, Delay
September 27, 2007

I’m not sure what’s going on with air travel today. With a bus, you just get on and go. While I realize that the procedure is going to be different with a vehicle that travels in the sky, the typical bottleneck for flights had always been more the baggage screening, not the waiting in the terminal.

I think the girl sitting next to me has one of those open tickets where there has to be a free seat for her to ride. But since they asked for five volunteers to get bumped from this overbooked flight, I think she’s gonna be waiting around a bit longer.

I Want to be an Astronaut
September 23, 2007

When I was little, my brother and I would play in the basement in the dark. The basement was our spaceship. We drew ship controls on paper in markers and crayons and used masking tape to tape them onto work tables in the basement. We’d pretend we were going to far away places, pushing the buttons of our controls to operate our space ship.

I have a memory of receiving my first telescope. We were at my uncle’s house and there was snow on the ground. We set it up in the frigid air and looked at the craters in the surface of the full moon. It was awesome.