Mention that you have depression. One of the reasons I still can’t put into words my feelings about SXSW this year is that the project I’m most excited about at the moment had the effect of causing folks to run away from me as soon as possible after hearing about it. This is not good for networking. I guess I should not have been surprised by the reaction, but I was. Partially because I’m sure that at least half of the folks that reacted that way also have depression. Partially because since I have found that talking about it is...… →

Still trying to process my thoughts on this year’s conference. It was great, in a totally different way than last year’s conference. I met so many more folks this year, which was a good thing for me, but was also a lot of work. Last year I focused more on the panels and less on the networking, but still managed to get a ton of inspiration and a few great friends out of it. This year I had many more conversations with many more folks, but most of them were only a few minutes long. We’ll see how many of...… →

On Friday I am off to SXSW. I am really looking forward to catching up with the folks I met last year, and meeting some new friends. There’s nothing like a place full of hundreds of web geeks to give me a shot of inspiration. I will be at Buffalo Billiards at 6:30 on Saturday for the University Web Developers meetup. You are all invited— come say hi and meet your colleagues in meatspace! Chip Diffendaffer from Denver U. deserves much credit for organizing this get-together. We will then all be moving over to the opening party at 8. I...… →

If you’re reading this, you are seeing the site at the new host. I think everything sould be working fine here. Let me know if you see a problem. This is a test to make sure my feeds are working. Sorry for the interruption. One last test. Sorry. ——- … →

I have been a bit quiet lately. This is largely because I got a spark of inspiration (sadly a bit rare these days…) and launched a new project over at Jangly Ganglia. Some of you may remember when I spoke about buying the domain on a whim after reading a passage in Cryptonomicon. I sat on the name for several months, and then had a brainstorm last week. I realized I needed a way to stay positive— that no matter what happened in my life, I was focusing only on the negative. This is a function of my biology; I...… →

I think I may have finally found a feedreader. I have been maniacally switching readers every couple of days for several months, trying to find one that meets all my needs. Apparently I have a lot of needs. High maintenance, moi? Anyway, sometime during my obsessive googling for feed readers I came across Gregarius, which is a web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator, designed to run on your web server, allowing you to access your news sources from wherever you want.</p> Completely web-based (runs on your web server) Simple, password-protected, administration and configuration AJAX powered item tagging Full-text search Committed to web...… →