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I absolutely loved it." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:14:34 GMT"/>			<outline text="I built a &lt;a href=&quot;http://deprop.opiumfield.com/&quot;&gt;a website&lt;/a&gt; (it's currently presentable, but not that usable - usability and extra features to follow)." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:40:54 GMT"/>			<outline text="I took some photos. I'm way too tired to post them - but I think, tomorrow, I'll be in a fit enough state only to hit 'yay' or 'nay' on 'em." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:41:38 GMT"/>			<outline text="My laptop has new sticky sticky stickers." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:42:09 GMT"/>			<outline text="I met some great folks - &lt;a href=&quot;http://captsolo.net&quot;&gt;CaptSolo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://danbri.org/&quot;&gt;danbri&lt;/a&gt; were there from the SemWeb community, as was &lt;a href=&quot;http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Mark Birbeck&lt;/a&gt; (who I didn't meet, alas). And that's just wwithin the SemWeb group - I met so many people, handed out business cards, performed extremely badly in a game of werewolf and then moderated one. I also met &lt;a href=&quot;http://decafbad.com/blog/&quot;&gt;Les Orchard (aka 0xDECAFBAD)&lt;/a&gt;, who r0x0rz over at the d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:42:17 GMT"/>			<outline text="One thing I didn't imagine I was going to like but ended up adoring is Doctor Who. I haven't watched any of the new series (and, by new, I mean, like any time in the last few &lt;i&gt;years&lt;/i&gt;) and by means that we have all collectively forgottoen, Doctor Who was broadcast for attendees to watch." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:44:28 GMT"/>			<outline text="Tip: if you want to organise an event, the Hack Day model is a good one. Or BarCamp. Or BloggerCon." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:43:52 GMT"/>			<outline text="Lots of space, lots of wifi, lots of power and interesting people. Although I'm tired, I'm energised at the same time. Spending time with such a wide variety of people helps you see different perspectives. And you learn much more about doing cool things (the source of money is innovation, the source of innovation is 'ooh - that'd be cool') by being around people who want to do cool things even if it's not strictly 'relevant' to the serious-minded professional PR thing. Blergh. Thoughts out of order." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:47:45 GMT"/>			<outline text="Need sleep. Tired. No complaining - it's what Donovan would call &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.opml.org/dwatts&quot;&gt;a thoughtstream&lt;/a&gt;. A bit like Twitter but you read it in your aggregator. Oh, and I had Twitter &lt;i&gt;off&lt;/i&gt; all weekend. I may finally be cracking my addiction to it. I don't even miss it. Who needs 'ambience' (the so-called 'Jim had to go and pick up his kids, Mary is buying dogfood' stuff) when you are in a roomful of hackers?" created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:52:13 GMT"/>			<outline text="And if I'm now coding, perhaps I've broken one of those uncreative, 'sickness' cycles or whatever. I expect now that I'll actually have good ideas, but the technology will fail me at every opportunity it has. As Dave would say, &lt;i&gt;Praise Murphy&lt;/i&gt;." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:54:22 GMT"/>			<outline text="Still, good ideas are more important than technological success. If all you do is recreate the status quo with new twiddly bits on it, big whoop. That's why I am almost tempted to just say 'fuck it' to reading the standards mailing lists. Now that we have RDFa in XHTML 1.1, I almost couldn't care about the W3C and the WHATWG. It's like television news to me - it is interesting, like, oh, missing children or transport policy, but it's not nearly as important." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:56:10 GMT"/>			<outline text="That doesn't mean I won't throw a wobbly if someone at any of these places does something stupid - as they no doubt will. &quot;;-&gt;&quot; Water, duck's back. We make mistakes." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:59:41 GMT"/>			<outline text="Reduce the anger, let the creativity surge in." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:00:22 GMT"/>			<outline text="It's a thoughtlog, not a work of art. Time to go and sit in my HackDay beanbag. I now want one in every colour." created="Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:00:34 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/hackDay54195/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('hackDay54195');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/hackDay54195/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('hackDay54195'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>