Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2003

That's it: Although not through with what I wanted to finish today - I've given up. Going to do something fun now - for a change.

New lease: I've just renewed my Radio Userland licence for another year. Although I don't think Radio ist the ideal solution for blogging (Movable Type is a better and more complete product in my opinion), the problem is that switching tools is not exactly easy if you can't do any hosting yourself. So for the time being I will be sticking with Radio - although I'm looking forward to seeing TypePad launched.

Afternoon break: So far today, I wrote my first Cocoon Flow example, wrote a short introductory presentation on the flow stuff and repackaged 200 Powerpoint slides because the corporate layout has been changed. You don't want to go there. And no Steven, you do not need to comment on the last point :-). I also made myself a yummy meal - which I'll share: pasta in garlic oil with jalapeno chili, sliced green olives and roasted pine seeds.

Make my day: While the family is away and visiting Frank (make sure you check Christopher's pockets before he leaves :-)), I have my head down getting things prepared for the next couple of weeks where I will be travelling to a couple of customers and of course presenting at Jax. At the moment I'm wrapping my brain around Cocoon Flow.

OSCON: Steven notices that there are no Cocoon presentations at OSCON. I also submitted a couple of presentations (not only on Cocoon) which were turned down too. Still, I think the program looks very interesting and I'm going! I like the wide range of topics and apart from being able to soak up some new topics it will be time to meet some people I haven't seen for a year. Now, if you went last year you will notice that a couple of things have changed at OSCON - O'Reilly is not providing breakfast or lunch this year. Actually I'm disapointed about that - not so much because of the food (although it was great) but because breakfast and lunch were the times you could just sit down at a table and start chatting with someone like Doc Searls, Sam Ruby, Maddog, Erik Hatcher and loads of others. All people you would want to meet if you went there. It will be interesting to see how that works out this year.

Full blown scan: Ben went and got himself a body scan. Looks like something I would want to do - if only to have a video of my heart beating.