I survived WD06 and OZIA and enjoyed every minute

Two days of WD06 work­shops, two days of WD06 proper, two days of OZIA con­fer­ence and seven nights of drink­ing social net­work­ing. What can I say that has not be blogged about by oth­ers, so here are the per­sonal high­lights in rough chro­no­lo­gical order.

1. Jeremy Keith’s DOM script­ing work­shop, which filled in the gaps I had from read­ing his book and I have gone from some­body who could do DOM script­ing and unob­trus­ive javas­cript, to some­body who is con­fid­ent in using DOM script­ing and unob­trus­ive javascript.
2. Get­ting the solu­tion to my prob­lem with flash and Mac OsX from James Edwards while stand­ing out­side a pub at 2230 while hav­ing a cigar­ette (or three).
3. Dur­ing a WD06 ses­sion view­ing a photo on flickr of Andy watch­ing via my blog the video I uploaded to you­tube of him giv­ing the brit­pack undies to Andrew K. then read­ing Ben’s blog post about it.With the video, photo, blog­ging and view­ing all tak­ing place in the Uni­ver­sity Hall on the same day. Web 2.0 MFG.
4. Kelly Goto’s iter­at­ive apps present­a­tion. It was one of those light bulb moments for me. I have a major pro­ject com­ing up and the meth­od­o­logy Kelly high­lighted just made so much sense.
5. Get­ting a hug from Malar­key, sorry Molly get­ting a hug from you was one of the high­lights of WE05, but this time it was the hug from your beau.
6. Thomas Van der Wal present­a­tion on tag­ging at OZIA, it really opened my eyes to the pos­sib­il­it­ies and advant­ages of tagging.
7. My head not explod­ing after two days of solid Inform­a­tion Archi­tec­ture like Donna said would hap­pen, even though Mark Bern­stein made a damn good attempt with his key­note at 0830 on the first day.
8. The best bit was the people, they where just so damn good to be around. I will not men­tion names, because while I like name drop­ping, the list would be so long and I don’t want to risk miss­ing any­body out, thank you, you should know who you are.

Regrets I had a few

1. Smoking like a chim­ney for the whole time, after not smoking for years.
2. Drink­ing far too much, too often. Damn you Kevin Yank, I sup­pose I will have to buy a few more Site­point books so you can provide drink cards next year.
3. Not say­ing thank you to Thomas for his present­a­tion on tag­ging at OZIA. I thought Thomas would be around for the second day of OZIA, but alas this was not the case.

So with WD06 and the inaug­ural OZIA over where next, well I am head­ing home tired but enthused which is what I wanted. Will I be back next year, most def­in­itely for both as long as Eric keeps OZIA close to WD07. Even if it is totally self fun­ded like this year. But in the mean­time I am ser­i­ously con­sid­er­ing going to SXSW, for the same reason I went to WD06 to get enthused and met more people.

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