every day i write the book

A list of some conferences that I’m considering. Mostly for my own use, but feel free to post suggestions for others in the comments.
March/April

O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference: Location Enabled [March 30 - April 1, 2010 - San Jose, CA]
O’Reilly MySQL Conference [April 12-15, 2010 - Santa Clara, CA]
Voices that Matter Conferences [iPhone Developers Conference, April 24-25, 2010, Seattle, WA]

May

O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo [May 3-6, 2010 - San Francisco, CA]
Future of Web Design [May 17-19, 2010 - London]
An Event Apart [NE:[...]

Time goes by so quickly. My daughter is out on her first date…alone…with a boy…without a group of friends. I got to talk with him–Mark–for a few minutes before they left for dinner and a movie. He seemed very respectful, and nice, and considerate. Which is all good, but he’s taking my only daughter in a big green truck 30 minutes down the road. Did I say alone?
Music gets me through times like this, so let’s hear a couple of[...]

So I bought a new camera Sunday-the Canon SX10 IS. I’ve been going back and forth between it and the Canon G10 for weeks now. I liked the style of the G10, and its old school dials and its 14.7 megapixels, but in the end it was the 20X megazoom on the SX10 that sold me. That and it was on sale at Best Buy for $369.
Have a look at its maiden voyage.
Overall, I have to say that I am[...]

Don’t you hate when you take pictures of groups of people and someone always blinks? I found an article today:
Piers then figured out how many shots I’d need to be 99% certain of getting a good one. He found that photographing thirty people in bad light would need about thirty shots. Once there’s around fifty people, even in good light, you can kiss your hopes of an unspoilt photo goodbye.
Piers also came up with a rule of thumb for[...]

Everyone and their brother does a top 10/100/50 at the end of the year. This year I thought I join in. Offered for your inspection–48 of my favorite albums and cultural moments.
Presented in no particular order:
1. MGMT
2. Santogold
3. Mates of State
4. Kanye
5. The Verve
6. Oasis
7. The Raconteurs
8. Coldplay
9. Conor Oberst
10. The New Odds – Cheerleader
11. Okkervil River
12. Kings of Leon
13. Mother Mother – Oh My Heart
14. Beck – Modern Guilt
15. Socratic – Spread the Rumors
16. Guns N’ Roses – Chinese[...]