Impressions of @media 2006
- Jeffrey Veen is somewhere in the region of 8345 ft tall, striding the world like a laid-back, rather casual colossus. Despite this, his publicity photo was taken from a vantage point somewhere above his head. Either a) the photo was snapped from a passing aircraft or b) somewhere out there is a photographer who is taller than Jeff Veen. Think about it.
- Molly Holzschlag moves constantly. She's some kind of living embodiment of Heisenberg's principle that position and velocity cannot be determined simultaneously.
- Every web design course should have at least one class where students have to watch videos of disabled people using the web. Hell, I'd like to see some education on how disabled people use e-mail, write HTML or compose Word documents.
- Jeremy Keith makes the sort of insights that, when you hear them, you think "that's so perfectly sensible, it seems almost obvious." Eg. Don't use mysterious Javascript pixie magic to provide an essential function on your web page. Yet noone thinks of these things until Jeremy points them out. I really, really need to read his book.
- Eric Meyer liked my Mission of Burma shirt. Woo!
- Did you like my semantically correct use of the cite tag in the previous item?
- Lots of people made notes by typing (live-blogging, I believe it's called by the cool kids) on expensive looking Mac laptops. How do they draw diagrams, or doodle?
- Mac laptops are shiny and desirable. Mmmmm, my precious…
- The web dev community are some of the most open, friendly and approachable people in the world. I wish I'd had the chance to speak to more people.
- Some of the accessify folks came down to Greenwich on Saturday, which gave me a chance to play with the 28-inch telescope. Photos are up on Flickr from Dan Champion and Karl Dawson.
Comments
Thanks again for the trip to Greenwich Jim, had a great time.
Posted by: Dan | June 18, 2006 8:11 PM
Rocked to meet you Jim!
bruce
Posted by: bruce | June 18, 2006 8:13 PM
Yes, Saturday's trip to Greenwich topped off my trip to London perfectly. Cheers!
Posted by: Blair Millen | June 18, 2006 8:31 PM
It was good to finally meet all you guys in person. Hopefully we will meet again, sooner rather than later.
Posted by: Jim | June 18, 2006 11:33 PM
Greenwich was definitely the highlight of the day, thanks from me and Jane! I'll have a few photos on Flickr later today - the camera flash was too weak to overcome the orange lighting unfortunately.
Posted by: Karl | June 19, 2006 3:16 PM
Thanks for the kind words, Jim.
But...
Next time, I wanna come to Greenwich too, okay? ;-)
Posted by: Jeremy Keith | June 21, 2006 9:22 PM
"The web dev community are some of the most open, friendly and approachable people in the world. I wish I'd had the chance to speak to more people."
Absolutely.
Posted by: Daniel Lynch | June 22, 2006 12:04 PM
Actually, there is, and his name is Derrick -- an O'Reilly author and employee, as it happens. He's about half a foot taller than Veen. No joke!
And how could I not like a MoB shirt?
Posted by: Eric Meyer | June 24, 2006 8:09 PM
So my powers of deduction were correct - there is a man who makes Jeff Veen look short? There you go. He must really enjoy long plane trips.
I've been playing with youtube and someone's uploaded some footage of the MoB reunion tour.
Posted by: Jim | June 25, 2006 1:33 AM
Great to finally meet you, Jim. Thanks for being our food guide and I promise not to be so knackered as to miss Greenwich next time!
Posted by: dotjay | June 27, 2006 10:18 PM