Category Archive for: ‘Conventions’

• Glasgow: Friday, An Unintended Trip to Edinburgh

  Friday, after I finished my exam, we had an unintended civics lesson in Edinburgh. About the time I was hunkering down on the last of my Photoshop exam, Rick came to realize that his passport was missing. I knew something was going on by the …

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• Glasgow, Thursday

  I finished my Javascript exam in the morning, then headed off to the SECC to get all the registration sorted out and see the convention. Enroute, I ran into Liz Mortensen and Ed Green, then James Stanley Daugherty. Eventually, I did manage to get to …

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• Glasgow, the Arrival

  When I thought about having to take a ten-hour flight (one of two legs), I very nearly thought about not going to Glasgow at all. I don’t travel well, though I love the experience of travel. I would have been an idiot not to go, …

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• Westercon in Brief

  Too many panels, but all of them good. Three more tomorrow. Whee! Westercon 60 will be in San Jose. Page by moi, though I’m not done yet and I’ve changed part of the color scheme. Calgary is a neat city. Westin Calgary is a nice …

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• Westercon Schedule

  I finally got my Westercon schedule entered into iCal. Phew! My wrist was hurting by the end; I’m that busy. If you’d like to download my schedule (iCal format), click here.

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• BayCon, Sunday and Monday

  I’m horribly overdue in writing this. I know. ::hangs head in shame:: Sunday morning, we had a great panel about Villainy, including Neil Zawaki, author of entertaining books about villainy, and Ed Muller, who is way more devious than I’d ever given him credit for. …

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• BayCon, Saturday

  Around about Saturday of BayCon, I started recovering. While a lot of staff jobs leave one more and more tired as the convention continues, the head of programming is an exception: the position is front-loaded, meaning that one starts the con tired and gradually recovers. …

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• BayCon, Friday

  BayCon’s Meet the Guests reception was overrun by the Fellowship of the Blinking Purple Fez, which consisted of the guests of Honor: Frank Wu, Jay Lake, Chris Garcia, Andy Trembley, and Kevin Roche. It was a lot of fun, though it didn’t quite top last …

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• Blogging BayCon

  Bill Humphries over on whump.com suggests tagging posts so that they can all be gathered together on technorati. I think the same would be excellent for BayCon, too, so here’s my link to the technorati baycon page. You can add one to your BayCon-related posts …

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• Finally!

  I finally had an hour to play with my little bloggie. How I’ve missed you! The problem turned out to be some nasty garbage in either the options or the comments. I cleaned out everything that didn’t appear to be essential. Lo, everything worked again. …

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