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This was my first experience as a conference organizer. It was fun. It was scary. It was too much work. Don’t know if I’ll do it again, but I certainly learned a lot.

I met a lot of people, almost all for the first time face-to-face. I listened to a lot of amazing talks. I missed too many talks because of the parallel tracks :(

Didn’t connect with Webkit guys the way I would have liked, but did have some good meals with Opera and Mozilla folk. Great times. Wish there had been more time for shmoozing and geeking out.

I came away feeling pretty good about Microsoft and SVG. I felt even better about Google and SVG. Brad really came through for us in a lot of ways.

Apple who?

I also felt pretty good about the reception to some of my pet projects that I’m working on as part of my SVG Interest Group efforts: Scour and SVG-edit. Both of which were mentioned in several other talks before I even got a chance to talk about them. Hoping to have lots of progress to talk about next year…

§545 · October 14, 2009 · Life · 3 comments · Tags: ,


Some day all browsers will be able to view this entry.

§528 · April 1, 2009 · Life · 6 comments · Tags:


Updated my SVG support chart for the latest batch of browsers out there:

  • Safari 4 Beta (81.93%)
  • Chrome 2.0 Nightly (81.39%)
  • Internet Explorer 8 (0.00%)
  • Some more recent Firefox builds (3.5b latest, pre-3.6+SMIL)

Great to see Chrome 2.0 with SMIL enabled (like Safari 4)! I’m really looking forward to the next wave of modern browsers: There’s enough SMIL enabled in Opera, Safari 4 and Chrome 2 that you can start to do some really fun things.

Now you can read on for some complaints leveled against Konqueror 4.2.1. Read the rest of this entry …

§525 · March 29, 2009 · Life · 8 comments · Tags: , ,


I’ve struggled a long time with trying to come up with the perfect solution for tracking my Things To Do. For the last several months I’ve tried to use a physical notepad and small pen in my back pocket, but that’s literally turning into a pain in the ass. Here are my requirements for a digital system:

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§521 · February 16, 2009 · Google, Life, Technology · 3 comments · Tags: , ,


I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with coffee. For about 9 months in 2008 I was nearly completely caffeine-free and it was a liberating experience having zero chemical dependencies. With the colder weather and the busy work schedule, I’ve started to slowly succumb to the Brown Horse again, though I’ve been pretty successful at keeping it at the ‘decaf’ level with the occasional Coke slipped in. I still don’t get the whole three-to-five dollar drink thing that everybody else around me seems to love to do.

What’s your favorite warm beverage in the winter?

§513 · December 12, 2008 · Life · 7 comments · Tags: , , ,