I took this photo back in January and I don’t think I ever posted it. I love the colors.

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For some reason I have two weather widgets for Chicago set up on my Dashboard. Often when I look at them they’re not the same. My first though was that maybe one was for the airport while the other was downtown or something. But when I looked at the setup, they both just say “Chicago, [...]

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On Monday it was pouring in Austin so Justin and I split a cab from our hotel to the convention center. It was $3.25. Two people can barely sit down in a cab in Chicago for that much! That morning I saw a panel called “Hardware Mashups: Introducing the Long Tail of Gadgets.” I wasn’t [...]

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Heather Armstrong & Maggie Mason, SXSW, Austin, TX
After the Zuckerberg Keynote disaster, which I was so glad to have witnessed first-hand, I caught two more really great panels. The first one was “Content Boundaries, a 12-Step Program presented by Heather Armstrong (of Dooce.com) and Maggie Mason (of Mighty Girl). Their presentation went really smoothly and [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg & Sarah Lacey, SXSW, Austin, TX
So, about Zuckerberg. I keep getting asked… Yes, I was there, 5th row, center when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed by Sarah Lacey. Yes, it was bad. I think actually being in the audience you could feel the swell and then the explosion. Others have told me [...]

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