Hi, my name is Kimberly Blessing. I'm a computer scientist, Web developer, standards evangelist, feminist, and geek. This is where I write about life, the Web, technology, women's issues, and whatever else comes to mind.
SxSW notes, for you and for me
(This post originally started on March 13, 2006 at 10:36 AM CST)
The crazy thing about SxSW is that you get busy and don’t have time to do the things you mean to do. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just the way it is. So you go with the flow.
Anyway, I wanted to post notes, cool quotes, and links to folks I’ve met (or reunited with). I’ll update this whenever I have time… maybe not until after I get home!
So far, here are some new folks that I’ve met:
- Ryan and Adam from Infinity Web Design, on the flight from Minneapolis to Austin
- Baratunde (meaning: one who is chosen) at Breaking Bread with Brad
- Kit Seeborg, one of the Webvisions organizers
- Eric Hansen, Minister of Culture (definitely the best title I’ve seen in a while!) at Tom Peters
- Pat Ramsey, standards wrangler at Southwestern University
There are many people here that I already knew (virtually) but am meeting for the first time:
- Chris Kaminski, a fellow WaSP member, and the guy who saved me from having to take time to write some scripts for the new site when I was still busy working on templates and design issues
- Drew McLellan, another fellow WaSP and creator of 24ways
- Kazuhito Kidachi, yet another fellow WaSP, whose done a fine job of translating and testing for the group
And I’ve gotta call out some of my AOL and ex-AOL friends:
- Tom Crenshaw, fellow hockey fan, Corrado enthusiast, and author of the foreward to the Flash 8 Bible
- JoRoan Lazaro, creator of the AOL Running Man
There are some really good pictures up on flickr from various activities, too:
- The WaSP ATF
- Me at the WaSP badge-making table
- How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Standards Panelists (including me!)
And all of my photos are up on Flickr as well.
And here are the slides from the panel I did with my AOL pals!
