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James Nachtwey’s TED story

It’s sad for my country to be present here in the negative light. Facing stuff like this is what makes us better people. I hope.

Looking forward to this, in 3 days.

update: It’s a story about new mutation of tuberculosis virus. Terrifying.

@media 2007

This was my first big conference, thus do not look for comparisons with SxSW and other events. There are probably plenty of people that will do that. I just want to briefly summarize my impressions.

Organization was great. Registration was nicely organized, small queues, with cheerful fellow getting people to the appropriate points. The catering and the food itself – both lunch and cookies – were superb. Really tasty, warm and cute. There were no tables to seat down though, which was not that big of the problems. The floors are clean, thus everyone just sat down and ate their meal.

The sound was perfect (apart from one part of Håkon’s presentation), both from speakers and attendees asking questions using a wireless mic. I don’t believe a better job could have been done there.

Presentations were good and interesting. Most speakers use Macs, thus Keynote ruled here, with Hakon using HTML and Opera’s projection mode – as you would expect from the Opera’s CTO. With english not being my native language, I did not have problems following anything – except Joe Clark’s presentation. He speaks so quickly and seems to use so much references that I had a hard time understanding anything. Add the fact that there were no slides shown – only examples for the topic he covered…well I left before the end.

I also had to miss Mark Boulton’s presentation which I’m really sorry about. However, I had a previously arranged meeting with Sony repair engineer. My laptop’s CPU fan was failing and had to be replaced. I spent 3 days trying to convince Sony phone support that it was not a software problem and thus repair underwent during the conference. We were quite a sight in the hallway – entire laptop in pieces because damn fan is screwed from under the motherboard. It took an hour to get it done and the guy was really quick at that. Piecing all back together went without a hitch, with just a BIOS in/out needed.
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Off to @media London

I’m already in London, strollling a bit while awaiting @media 2007 to start on Thursday.

I’m at the Thistle city Barbican hotel, thus if you are attending the conference and staying there, let me know so we can have a few drinks.

My brother Damir is coming from Sweden and I’m certain the conference would be a great experience. I’m really looking forward to meet more people.

Now…

…this is great.

So if you say Wow, that DHTML is really neat you’re a bloody wanker, saying We should do this cool AJAX stuff is fine as long as you’re talking to the people with the money bags, but when you address your peers you say I’m having a bit of a problem with this DOM script.

The @media conference in London really sound more than worthwhile to be there and I’ll try my ass off to get there next year.