Archive for the 'WDS07' Category

One of the prob­lems attend­ing WDS07 is find­ing the time to blog, With all the present­a­tions and social­ising, I am not get­ting enough time to sleep let alone blog. So here is a quick post of the first 24 hours or so, writ­ten in bursts between sessions.

After a late night and a good cof­fee I was ready for Oz-IA/2007. It was a jam packed days with lots of good present­a­tions and time to met lots of people between ses­sions includ­ing some­body I had not seen for 12 years. I will run through the high­lights of day for me.

After a late arrival yes­ter­day after a QANTAS ground­crew man­aged to dam­age the rear cargo door just prior to take off and the res­ult­ing two hour delay. As pho­to­graphs where sent around the globe to QANTAS engin­eers in Sydney, the Civil Avaition Author­ity in Can­berra and Boe­ing in Tacoma to get the ok to fly after some pan­el­beat­ing. Lach­lan and Lisa where good enough to pick me up from the air­port and deliver me to my hotel, which is great little apart­ment around the corner from Oz-IA.

First stop today was …

With both WDS07 and OZ-IA/2007 rap­idly approach­ing, and a most of the local blog­space remind­ing people to sign up with Web Dir­ec­tions before the dis­count pri­cing ends this Fri­day at 2200 WST. (You should go at least once Ashul!).

It is time to put in plug for Oz-IA/2007. Dis­claimer, by put­ting the Oz-IA logo on this post, I am will go into the draw to win a free ticket to Oz-IA. How­ever, as soon as regis­tra­tions opened I bought a ticket, so if I do win the ticket to Oz-IA/2007 I will have to find a fair way to redis­trib­ute it.

So Miles has tagged me with Web Dir­ec­tions Photo Meme to cel­eb­rate less than a month to go to Web Dir­ec­tions South 2007, that there are more digital cam­eras than people attend­ing these events and to prove that I actu­ally atten­ded in the past and had a very good time doing so as well as […]

The story as I tell it. About fives years ago when Miles was work­ing as a freel­ance web developer, he felt isol­ated from oth­ers in the insustry. So Miles and a few oth­ers set up the Port80 forum and most import­antly decided to meet the first Wed­nes­day of each month at a local pub to com­plain about cli­ents over a few beers…