Balisage Deadlines

Balisage is this new XML++1 geekfest, put on by some of the people who used to put on the Extreme Markup conference, which is aimed to get the brain cells running again after summer. It’s being held in Montréal in the middle of August, which means all those street-level restaurants, and brushing up on French [...]

Personal NV Musings

I just got back from the NorthernVoice organizing committee’s post-conference lunch. The conference motto is personal blogging and social media but lots of people who attend or speak are interested in the professional or corporate aspect as well. As a result, one of the perennial topics we talk about is who the conference is for, [...]

Bravery

You can see bravery in places you don’t expect it to be needed. In the safe confines of a blogging conference, for example. Read Meg’s posting, and Nancy’s response.
I was in that session, and where Meg was brave enough to tape her picture on the wall, I was not. I threw it in the [...]

MooseCamp 2008

Another nice Friday in February for MooseCamp; somehow the MooseCamp day managed to score nice weather two years in a row. This year’s MooseCamp was bigger than previous years, and I think we’re getting to the limit of how many people we can take without losing something. We also seem to be getting a lot [...]

Energy Deprivation and NorthernVoice

There’s something about these grey gloomy days that saps my energy. I’m still here, just not blogging much. I do post occasionally to my crafting blog, that seems easier somehow than this “main” blog. I’ll have to think about what that says about my blogging right now. I’m hoping that going to the Northern Voice [...]

Yearly Rethink

One of the reasons I like going to Northern Voice is that it always gives me lots to think about, in terms of what to write about on my blog, what technical tricks to try out, and how to write better. Other people choose their blogiversary, or maybe New Year’s Day, but I find Northern [...]