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Events and Apologies

Posted: May 18th, 2006 | 8 Comments »

Firstly, an apology to everyone attending XTech in Amsterdam right now, especially those who I was hoping to see, those who were hoping to see me and those who were hoping to learn why I’m so keen on Ning (other than working there, of course). Well, for a sample of the things I was going to talk about, first watch my ETech talk, then go look at our Atom-based REST API. Ever wanted a proper read-write Atom Store to play with that lets you upload custom data structures that are queryable in a database-type way using URLs that produce Atom feeds? Here, you have one. It’s free and it gives you a gig of storage. Go wild.
In better news, there’s a good chance I may be presenting at Reboot in Copenhagen on the 1st of July. Not certain about this yet, but the topic will likely be “Logic To The People” and will tie together Ning, Second Life, JotSpot and LambdaMOO amongst others. That’s what I hope, anyway.
So, once again, my apologies to everyone in at XTech, especially the magnificent Edd Dumbill who has put up with endless vacillation and dithering from me on all kinds of topics. Oh, and the reason I couldn’t make it? Well, obviously this is what I was anticipating when I cancelled the talk yesterday, but… bizarrely, while I was halfway through typing this very blog entry… my wife’s just gone into labour.
(I’d better get off the computer.)

8 Comments on “Events and Apologies”

1 Justin said at 1:40 pm on May 18th, 2006:
whoa — good luck!
2 Jay Gooby said at 1:59 pm on May 18th, 2006:
Best excuse evah!
3 Paul said at 2:39 pm on May 18th, 2006:
Yay!!! Good Luck and best wishes to Bob!
4 danny said at 6:54 pm on May 18th, 2006:
wooooh. good luck, everyone!
5 cait said at 10:46 pm on May 18th, 2006:
Welcome back from the rollercoaster.
See all three of you very soon!
Now get some sleep while you still can
6 James and Cat said at 12:34 am on May 19th, 2006:
Waiting for news! Hope all goes/is going/has gone well.
7 sasha said at 9:36 am on May 19th, 2006:
woooooooooohhh. Hope the yozboblet is/has arrived/arriving safely.
8 Nik said at 10:57 pm on June 17th, 2007:
woooooooooohhh. Hope the yozboblet is/has arrived/arriving safely.

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