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Summer of XML

One of my cur­rent pro­jects is as Course Dir­ector for the revamped XML Sum­mer School in Oxford, Eng­land. John Chel­som asked me to help out and I was only too happy to say yes; I have many fond memor­ies from pre­vi­ous years. It will be more a late-summer school this year, being from Septem­ber 20–25, […]

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2009 04 21 Comments (1)

Balisage Participation

I’ve never been to one of the really big con­fer­ences with thou­sands of people; I’ve heard the energy can be amaz­ing, and there is always some­thing inter­est­ing going on. I tend to find myself at smal­ler con­fer­ences where you have a chance to see people again whom you saw in the last talk, and can […]

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2009 03 18 Comments (1)

Northern Voice 2009

I’m slowly recov­er­ing from the whirl­wind that was North­ern Voice this year (I’m one of the organ­isers). All our hard work paid off, we had the usual last-minute glitches but every­one seemed to enjoy them­selves, to make new friends and con­tacts, to learn new things, to dis­cuss issues they care about, and to have fun. On […]

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2009 02 22 Vancouver Comments (0)

CanUX Forum

I’m still recov­er­ing from three intense days at the Banff Centre, tak­ing part in the CanUX Forum. The ori­ginal motiv­a­tion was to learn more about user exper­i­ence, usab­il­ity, and design. I learned enough about that to fill my brain, and also learned ideas for brain­storm­ing, the rela­tion between cre­ativ­ity and muscle memory, and how sometimes […]

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2008 11 19 Comments (0)

EWF 2008

The Exec­ut­ive Women’s Forum is a con­fer­ence put on for women involved in inform­a­tion secur­ity at a leadership/executive level, and I had the chance to go for the first time this year. I’ve never been to an all-women con­fer­ence before and although I have mixed feel­ings (it is, after all, inher­ently dis­crim­in­at­ory to exclude men) […]

2008 11 12 Comments (1)

A Week in August

It seems that August is con­fer­ence sea­son, at least for me. More pre­cisely, one week in August. First Bal­is­age in Mon­tréal (for which the online regis­tra­tion is clos­ing next Fri­day) August 12–15, and then Vinocamp here in Van­couver, at the UBC Botan­ical Garden, on August 16th. I’m speak­ing at the former, and help­ing organ­ise the […]

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2008 07 24 Food and Wine
Technology
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