You don’t so much return from Las Vegas as you recover from Las Vegas. Right now, I am recovering from my Las Vegas trip. Recovering from Vegas Nose caused by the extremely dry air and massive second hand smoke inhalation. Recovering from the sensory onslaught they call casinos. Recovering from the fake kitschiness and manafactured excitement as people sit like zombies feeding machines their life savings. Yet despite all that, I still love the place. Maybe because despite the bad things, Vegas is really the Disneyland for adults with a slight bad streak inside that yearns to get...
What would you do if you found out that a project you were working on was going to be used in an unethical or illegal manner? This is the sort of question that K. Scott Allen asks via a hypothetical scenario he proposes. At least I hope it’s hypothetical. Scott, is there something you want to confess? ;) While his situation is hypothetical, I think enough time has passed for me to tell you about a real situation I had the pleasure of dealing with at VelocIT. Some of the minor details have been changed to protect the guilty. This...
You’ve been H CKED will be well represented at Mix 07 this year. I thoroughly enjoyed Mix 06 last year and think 07 has the potential to be even better.
Do not worry, I’m leaving the retina scorching orange aloha shirt at home this time.
My only disappointment with Mix 07 so far is it doesn’t have quite the clever rhyme that Mix 06 did. My wife did a cheer for me as I left for last year’s the conference.
Mix! Oh-Six! Mix! Oh-Six! Mix! Oh Six!
“Mix! Oh-Seven!” doesn’t roll off the tonque quite in the same manner. No cheers from my wife...