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bruce sterling talk

Posted on 3/14/2006

still processing the experience of the last panel. this is in the same room as next-gen web apps, now I owe George Kelly a beer for his forethought in bringing a powerstrip.
the party doesn’t scale. :(? no, you are too big, too professional.
he’s in a dark, introspective, literary mood this year.? just […]

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open source management

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was originally going to be called “vulnerability” — but trying to ease people/corps into honest.
charlise theron is in the building?!
want to run it like a talk show. heather gold as host. big frustration: trying to be herself or not being herself at work. not go into “drag” at 9am. (indeed!)
david callisch, […]

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next-gen web apps

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a little drowsy, a little chilly. Bruce Sterling is a few chairs down from me, but I’m about used up of my store of fangirl moxie, so I just took his picture from a distance.
I’m mostly in this session to hear from the ginormous Veen about the uncannily addictive Measure Map.
Ev, Mena, Veen, eric […]

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convincing your co to support standards

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came in late, or they started early.
lawver had good stuff about building a standards support team. I wish Deirdre was still around. fun, management liasion. should talk to Dale about this, to start something on a statewide basis, maybe in connection with WaSP etf?
netscape/aol guy feels lots of empathy for the […]

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best mocha of my life

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I’m finishing up a gorgeous smooth creamy chocolatey iced mocha at the same coffeeshop I went to Thursday morning.? the adorably disheveled English (?) barista brewed the shot directly into the plastic cup with the chocolate syrup.? milk & ice went into a cocktail shaker separately and then poured over the top, stirred […]

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the moon is full and so am I

Posted on 3/13/2006

tonight I feel awake.? today was, overall, a very good day, enough to redeem yesterday’s exhaustion and frustration and then some.
I even got back to my hotel to the Breakfast Club (already in progress, as they say), which I haven’t seen in years and just loved in high school.
the sessions today were engaging, lunch […]

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.