posted by DL Byron on December 16, 2006
For ongoing coverage of the storm, see the PI’s storm blog. Having grown up in the Tri-Cities where the wind always blows, and several big tree-downing storms I can remember, I’ve never experienced any storm that massive. The sense of foreboding occured around 3:00 pm when I was in pitch blackness and a “wet, windy, fog.” It was mist thrown up from the Sound, swirled around, and pounded back down.
When I went out to check the roof and structure, the best way I can describe what I saw in my backyard was a wall of water — the yard was a bog and we did have water come into the basement.
Pam sometimes makes fun of me for being such a boy scout, but not after we wound up our emergency radio, turned on the flashlights, had the rations at the ready. We would not have left for Maui without reassurances from our friends Ken and Lindsey that they’d check the house. Marcus was also right there for us.
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posted by DL Byron on December 16, 2006
I’m on Day 3 of no email resulting from the 06 Storm and well, at this point, no worries. It’s vacation time, bike riding, sleeping, and relaxing. A 12 hour day getting to Maui, 4 of those in the airport without power, and today I’ll start riding for 7 days straight. As I wrote on Bike Hugger, it’s time to work less and bicycle more. For more on Maui, see
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posted by DL Byron on December 13, 2006
by TobyM at Web Design World Boston
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posted by DL Byron on December 13, 2006
Way back when, in 2005, I posted about how Eric Meyer loved me on Amazon.com. Yesterday, as demonstrated in this telling video, he did not want to be in my podcast demo (google video) at Web Design World Boston!!! Damn it!
Kidding aside, Eric and I had a great lunch together, caught up on various topics, and I was happy to hear how well An Event Apart is doing.
Also, despite the catchy title of, “Hey wanna be in my podcast!,” I’m not planning on going live with that show anytime soon.
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posted by DL Byron on December 13, 2006
I noticed and all the other speakers noticed how many women were at the other conference in the hotel, here in Boston for Web Design World — like 3 to 1 women, all professional, attractive, and with a confidence, a determinedness about them. They also party. Were they here for a Tony Robbins seminar are something?
After some investigation during an elevator ride, I learned it’s an Astra Zeneca sales meeting. Sales must be good.
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posted by DL Byron on December 11, 2006
The Sheraton Boston lounge has Sam Adams on tap — good. Tomorrow morning I’ll know if Boston also has good coffee (Vegas does not). The hotel is jumping and I think Web Design World is sold out.
One of the companies I’ll mention tomorrow in my talk about business blogging is Newsvine, a Seattle startup led by Mike Davidson, who is in the news today for a technology share with the NYTimes. Just about this time last year, we were finishing up Publish and Prosper, including a section on Newsvine and how they blogged their product.
Here’s a toast — a Sam Adams for you — Mike.
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posted by DL Byron on December 09, 2006
Next week I’m in Boston for Web Design World, which is always a great show. May hang with Ginevra Kirkland, Six Apart superstar, possibly meet with potential new clients, and catch up with Toby Malina.
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posted by DL Byron on December 08, 2006
At the Blue Flavor holiday party Friday night, I noted how well-deserved their new offices, gigs, and praise are. A great party, people, and design firm.
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posted by Jason Swihart on December 06, 2006
Here in Houston at the Space Exploration Conference the room is abuzz with today’s announcement from NASA: water on Mars!
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posted by DL Byron on December 05, 2006
Big hats, big boots, lots of cigarette smoke and chewing tobacco, marlboro men.
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posted by Jason Swihart on December 04, 2006
I’m in Houston for the first part of this week to help Boeing and NASA at the second annual AIAA Space Exploration Conference. Over at Textura Skunkworks, we built us a plugin for Movable Type that turns it into an audience response engine, and now we’re on site helping audience participation go where no audience has gone before.
Shana Dale—deputy NASA administrator—who announced the new NASA moonbase architecture yesterday, keynotes this morning, and then we enter a two-day space geek-out. Should be fun!
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posted by DL Byron on December 04, 2006
Talk about a mashup, Manis finds evidence that Michael Bolton opened for Blue Oyster Cult once. There’s that proof and more in Eric Bloom’s (lead singer and guitar player for BOC) galleries.
I remember seeing this shirt, maybe even live at the Benton County Fairgrounds, where I surely would’ve banged my head and yelled, “Zillagod!”
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posted by DL Byron on December 01, 2006
This year the SAS Christmas Calendar features a character named Dr. Lucas who’s looking for clues and evidence to provide an answer to his lifelong belief that Santa really exists. Besides the impressive flash work by Pool Interactive (it has a Myst feel to it), the calendar offers fares like $175.00 to Oslo.
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posted by DL Byron on December 01, 2006
I found myself sucked into the celebrity crotch vortex not once, but three times this week. Most interesting, or digusting, are all the sub blogs that suck off the main blogs and repost the content and photos with their own watermarks, as if any of them owned the crotch shots.
Rounding up the crotch coverage is Buzzfeed, who gets props for the design and adding their take, with an appropriate top crotch list.
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