Tangy grilled pork loin chops with pears and blue cheese, with a side of wild mushroom couscous. Salad was baby spring mix w/grape tomatoes and feta. Wine? Smoking Loon 2008 California Pinot Noir. Excuse any duplicate tweets, but I kept getting errors.
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Excellent post on the idiotic decision to allow the construction of the NYC mosque near the site of Ground Zero. I, too, have the right to be offended by this slap in the face of the USA by Islam.
http://beregondsbar.com/the-right-to-feel-offended/
On Friday night, I returned from San Francisco, where I had been covering Macworld Expo 2010 for
The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Now, this wasn't anything new for me -- I've been attending Macworld for years, starting in the late 1980s with a lapse during the time that I was sucked into the stress vortex that was IBM. In the 80's and 90's, I was trying to get information about new software and hardware that I could use to help the Mac users at the company that I worked for. When I began my "second life" as a Mac consultant, my initial reason for going to Macworld was to attend
Apple Consultants Network functions that were going on. As my life as my blogger blossomed, I started attending more social functions and building up relationships with software developers from around the world.
At Macworld Expo 2010, the show was all about the community. I wasn't really attending for the purpose of going to ACN functions, as there were a few but I really didn't care if I went or not. For the first time, I was strictly there as a citizen journalist. What I found was that the virtual relationships that I had built up with developers through emails and Twitter actually turned into "real" relationships, as I was able to finally put a face and a voice with the people I'd been tweeting with over the last couple of years.
I believe Macworld Expo is going to survive and thrive, if just for this reason. A lot of people need to get out and seek a community of others, whether that's a local group of iPhone developers, a Mac user group, a church, or a vast worldwide group of Apple fans. By creating the place where people can, in this virtual world, really meet others with the same love, IDG World Expos has successfully weathered the disappearance of Apple from Macworld Expo.
Howdy from Colorado!
