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I heard Brave Combo tear it up at the Iron Cactus last night. When the Iron Cactus folks shut the sound off before the band was done, they took it outside. It was an unamplified old school sidewalk street polka jam. And it was fun. Until the cops told them to stop. When will society stop trying to silence alternative polka? Roll out the barrel, baby.

It seems like we had enough t-shirts to go around after the weblog panel. There's still a box that has been misplaced by fedex floating out in the world. If you see them on the black market, you'll know where they came from. A lot of people have been asking me where they can get one. Well, we've given away all that we have right now. But I'm sure we'll print more soon. They went over very well. (Thanks, Derek, for the killer design.)

sxsw pictures: day 4.

Here's a tip: ALWAYS label *all* of your fedex packages individually -- even if they're in a group. Especially if they are T-Shirts that people want. Or they may get lost. ugh.

I just want to be the first to post that meg had a conversation with Janeane Garofalo while out on the town tonight. Austin is fun for star spotting during sxsw.

sxsw pictures: day 3.

The user-centered (not centric) design panel was interesting. I now have many ideas on ways to improve some of our processes at Pyra. And some general ideas for features. But I was generally impressed with our current process. (which is heavily influenced by The Inmates are Running the Asylum.) They talked about creative treatments/scenerios...while we use personas to generate these. Ok, enough shop talk. On to the shady grove for some serious slacking.

I wore my Blogger T-Shirt to the conference today. Random people walked up and asked about Blogger. [gratuitous link.] It was fun. :) Us usually anonymous behind-the-scenes programmers like a little glory once in a while too. It sounds like people are generally enthusiastic about it...which is nice. But I'm waiting for the backlash. ahh, dreaded backlash. So as a preemptive strike, we should start making fun of ourselves. oh wait, I bet Neale has already done that. ;)

Note to self: purchase DAT recorder. someday.

I see that ev made it to phoenix for pc forum. He's showing up in Dan Bricklin's pictures, anyway. I wish he had a DAT recorder with him so I could hear all of the great conversations he's going to have. ;)

I wish Cron Daemon was attending this conference. She sends me a nice email every day. It would be great to meet IRL.

matt is posting some pictures from sxsw too.