Feeling ill sucks… @media was cool and Microformats rock!!!!
June 27th, 2006
Man I hate it when I am ill…. for those of you that follow what I blether on about, you might have noticed that I have been a little abcent from writing over the past week. It started with Charlotte being ill on Sunday when she came back from her dads and proceeded into a room full of four people being ill and was no pretty sight. To top it off I was off work for a few days as a result and will have lost out on a substantial amount of cash 
At the end of the day family come first and that is where my heart is so that is where I was… still don’t think my guts are 100%!
Enough about the poorly monkey, before I came home and decided to mingle with the afflicted, I was down in London for @media2006 and I would have to say it totally rocked. This year I decided to avoid the talks that were (what I presumed to be) more tutorial based and went to listen to folk that were really deeply involved with the more interesting aspects of what is going on on the web.
I have to say, it is a very good thing to meet up with like minded individuals and share a passion and interest, it is also nice to meet people that you wouldn’t ordinarily cross paths with. Never in my life would I have though that I would be just feet away from the guy that invented the box model hack or the guy that built Internet Explorer, the browser of that brings any modern web developer a host of nightmares and woes (note from me… sorry to those non tech heads out there that haven’t got a f’ing scoobie what I am talking about).
I met some nice people this year, some of the guys that I used to work with were down in London and in turn some of their old work buddies were in attendence also and I am glad to have met them… Top blokes!
This is kind of the hard part… If I were to sum up the highlights of my visit, some of them would be as follows:
- Hooking up with folk I met last year
- Listening to some truely inspirational people talking about what my professional future holds
- Getting bemused by magic lights in Hamleys toy shop
- Finally understanding what the fuck microformats are about
- Speaking to people who I knew didn’t want to speak to me (it’s always nice to wind folk up
) - Having lunch on the the Saturday meetup and meeting Chris Heilmann who was genuinely nice and a pleasure to be about
- Meeting the the guys from the Multipack
- Being completely agnostic about the football when it was on in the pub… not being funny folks but footballl sucks ass lol
- Coming home…
Those are just some of the things I would highlight about the experience, for those of you that hummed and hawed about the whole thing… get a grip and just buy a ticket, it is worth it, I’ll see you next year!
So to wrap this up and bring it to a close… I haven’t talked enough about microformats (me and Mark have an idea brewing on this front) but I think I will post about that next, it is getting late here so I am gonna call an end to this post but now that I am back and feeling 98.7%, watch out for the podcast on Thursday and of course… Bad Joke Friday Pt 2 on Friday…
Speak to you soon peeps….
Mark Author Comment
June 27th, 2006
“Top Bloke”, i like that, cheers, and i’m glad you’re feeling better
I’m definitely with you on points 2, 4, 8, and 9…
Alan Author Comment
June 27th, 2006
Top bloke indeed
I could have gone on to write a whole bunch of other highlights but I think I will finish the post with a couple of quotes from the event that really did make me laugh… got a few things to do round the house but will get ‘em on there asap.