Upgraded the Funcave to WordPress 2.5 in record time.
Seriously. 20 minutes, tops. Most of that spent waiting for file and database backups.
Everything working like a champ. Kudos to the geniuii on the WordPress team.
All the more reason I’m utterly stoked about the WordCamp I’m slated to help plan!
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Completing some long overdue work here at the Funcave.
Please pardon the dust while we finish up.
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Everyone has their own reasons for going or not going to a given conference or summit. So the universal answer I just gave doesn’t fully answer Mark’s question for everyone.
And seeing as how I would never assume nor expect to speak for everyone, I can only speak for myself…
There are several reasons I did not put SMB Summit on my calendar this year, none of which are worth mentioning here.
But even if I had booked it, I would have had to cancel.
Because attending would have meant missing the Alabama Book Festival held yesterday in Montgomery, in the restored historical park of Old Alabama Town.
And the reason that would have been such a big loss for me?
I would have missed Apple Of My Eye reading the book she wrote, which just so happened to have won first place in the second grade division for the entire state of Alabama in the Reading Rainbow Young Writers & Illustrators Contest this year.
All the place winners and their family members were then treated to a fantastic lunch at the Young House. Man, that roast beef was phenomenal.
After that, Apple Of My Eye and Running Antelope were both interviewed on-camera for a segment that will air on Alabama Public Television on May 30th.
Then we stopped at the Galleria in Birmingham on the way back home so Apple Of My Eye and Cute As A Button could ride the carousel, and then go shopping with Running Antelope and their grandmothers.
Yesterday during all of this, Apple Of My Eye told Running Antelope…
This has been the very best day of my whole entire life.
That, my friends, is REALLY what it’s all about.
So no matter what your reason, I can only say that if you don’t prioritize properly, either in your business life or in your personal life, it’s gonna end up costing you dearly.
And if you are prioritizing correctly, then you should be proud of your choices, not second-guessing yourself for making the right call.
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You can’t be everywhere, man.
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Last week at MVP Summit, I went totally topless the entire time.
Now, before anyone within arm’s length of me decides to commit justifiable homicide, here’s what I mean by that.
I had seen something about companies issuing dictates against takign laptops into meetings. That they were too distracting. I thought that was a pretty good idea, but for a different reason. I simply hate lugging all that weight around with me all the time. So, thanks to some recent additions to my trusty utility belt, I pulled off a feat that some folks might think impossible.
I didn’t take my laptop out of the hotel room AT ALL! That’s right, (lap)topless baby!
Now, think about that for a minute. Being at an intensive, uber-deep-diving tech conference for a full week, and never dragging a laptop around with you even once.
This mission was a super-secret skunkworks experiment I codenamed More Mobile Than Mobile AKA MMTM.
And it was a resounding success! As in…
Hoo-RAH! Who’s your mobile daddy NOW?
Here’s a list of stuff that made MMTM possible:
I also had the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 with me for capturing all the images and video I wanted. That camera is playing at a whole other level of awesome, but was ancillary to MMTM, really.
There was really only thing that truly SUCKED about MMTM.
I didn’t have anything to use to carry the A/C cable and the headphones around. So my pockets were about to burst from all the junk crammed into them.
Obviously, cargo pants coming back into style would fix that, at least for a while. But a longer term solution would be some sort of small case.
Kinda like the one being given at the Mobile MVP dives, for which I was fortunate enough to receive an invite to attend. But as a guest, I didn’t think it would have been proper of me to receive one, instead of someone who was a Mobile or Mobile Dev MVP.
Even with that one little issue, everything else about More Mobile Than Mobile was AWESOME! I didn’t have to worry about where I was gonna stash my stuff. No bootup/shut down stuff to deal with. I could setup in even the tiniest of spaces. Just plug in for a little bit of juice here and there.
Well maybe moreoften than that. Battery life with Windows Mobile is beyond atrocious, and needs to be on the planning doc for the next version.
The part of MMTM that ROCKED? Nearly everyone who saw it wanted to know how well the keyboard worked. Once I showed them how fast and awesome it types and controls the Treo, I saw quite a few raised eyebrows.
I did notice some difficulty using the Bluetooth keyboard to type while simltaneously using the Bluetooth headphones to play music. Typing responsiveness would slow until it was basically unusable. I chalked that up to bandwidth limitations of the Bluetooth receiver on the Treo. As soon as I paused the music playback, the typing returned to normal.
Also, I found that changing the screen orientation to Landscape (right-handed) allowed the Treo to sit comfortable on the keyboard pop-up stand, while still being connected to whatever type of charging cable I happened to have at the moment, and without blocking or otherwise impeding access to the side volume and action button. A faster (as in one-tap) way to do that screen re-orientation would be nice, however.
All in all, a smash success. More Mobile Than Mobile is now my new standard way of attending conferences.
As soon as I find a decent mini-case, that is.
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