First of all, I feel like whenever I meet someone at SXSW whom I’ve heard of, I end up inadvertently reenacting The Chris Farley Show. Secondly: how cool is it that there’s a Wikipedia article for The Chris Farley Show?
I did, in fact, make it to the boozy parts. The web awards were pleasant but bizarre, the after‐party was sweltering but enlightening, and my feet are weary but well‐worn. Pictures to follow whenever I’m not completely exhausted.
If I weren’t freakin’ exhausted, I’d be trying to come up with creative art projects that use all the business cards I’m getting. As it is, I’ll be thrilled if I can make it to the boozy evening parts.
Just came back from a great “geek lunch” with some smart people, including Wilson Miner and Andy Budd. Purportedly it was about adaptive user interfaces, but it ended up being an extended conversation about web apps and Ajax in general. I like the idea of having structured blocks of time set aside for unstructured conversation, if that makes sense; sometimes geeks have to be forcibly grouped together before they start talking to one another.
So I’m here, finally, after leaving Dallas at 6:30 this morning. Missed the 10:00 panels, haven’t really talked to anyone yet, but somehow I feel cooler than I was an hour ago. Hopefully it’ll stick.
I’m missing the first day of SXSW Interactive because I’m in Dallas, Texas, to watch my cousin Eric get married this evening. Tomorrow morning I will wake up whenever the cock crows, run out the door, and get into my car. If the gods smile upon me I’ll be back…
A (Re-)Introduction to JavaScript. I’m going to save this and the slides from the presentation so that I can send them to a developer whenever he wants a crash course in JavaScript.
Since LazyWeb these days is the place where all the trackback spam hangs out, I find I have no choice but to turn my ideas into action. I envy the flexibility of tumblelogs like Projectionist, in which quotations, photos, chatlogs, and links commingle. That said, I don’t want to go…
Because I spun the Buzzword Roulette Wheel and landed on “Ruby” and “Wikipedia” on consecutive spins, I am finding myself writing a Ruby interface to MediaWiki. At work I use a great plugin for jEdit called mwjed that makes it about fifty times less annoying to edit wiki pages, and…
Garret Dimon’s post on front‐end architects is a good read, I think. But I’m usually biased toward articles that suggest that the skills I possess might become incredibly valuable in the very near future. I’m not sure I like the term ‘front‐end architect,’ but now I’m just being a weenie.…