intertwingly

Vancouver is certainly not a day trip for me.  If the conference ends up being there, I will undoubtably try to see if I can combine the trip with other things.  When planning the last SOAPBuilders and DevCon, we intentionally made it so that people could plan to attend both.  The last ApacheCon was near Comdex for similar reasons.

Now look at the speakers to the last O'Reilly ETCON.  Or SuperNova.  The next ones are in May/Santa Clara and June/Washington DC respectively.  Perhaps some of the interesting people could be encouraged to come early and/or stay after...

Imagine a caravan full of RTP bloggers descending on Washington DC in June...

There are lots of gems in this essay.  Example: Don't let some API get in the way of your understanding of XML systems at the document level. If you do, you run the risk becoming a slave to the APIs and hitting a wall when the APIs fail you.

A while back, I wrote an essay called Managed Serendipity.  It described a magical time when things are created by sponteneous collaboration.  The current term in vogue for appears to be the lazy web.  Whatever it is called, now is another such magical time... library lookup, more like this from others, rsd.

Nicola Ken:  Make Gump use Centipede and Forrest .  Why does this say " Using Apache Ant version 1.6alpha compiled on December 1 2002"?  Now read "What is Gump?".  Many of the contributors to Gump are, or have been, active Ant developers. 

Think bootstrap.