@Media Ajax…
Those of you who read this blog will probably recall that I put off a round of IUI treatment to go to ‘Vanilla’ @Media back in June.
Yesterday was Day 1 of the AJAX flavour of @Media, and I will still have nightmares about the pickled carrots they served at the buffet lunch.
The talks were good, those by Derek Featherstone and Stuart Langridge were the highlights for me.
The day was, alas, bookended by some particularly horrid experiences, mainly on the theme of being 5 months pregnant with a bad back and legs, and being shoved and kicked on the Tube and glared at as i made my way down a FCC train carriage to my husband who had tried to keep a seat for his ‘imaginary pregnant wife’, he gave me his seat, but I did burst into tears due to the shear stress of the day, so I hope those people who thought that he’d just made it up to have a place for his bag are suitably mollified.
So I am spending today at home working and trying to recover mobility sufficiently to do my no less unpleasant in a different way commute to Cambridge tomorrow. And also regain my faith in humanity enough that I don’t go on a rampage through the office 
I will post something better/nicer about the talks I enjoyed at a later stage, but at the moment most of my brain power has dwindle, and I’m about able myself mugs of cocoa and think about intranets.
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:54 am
[...] It was a great conference. Particular highlights for me were Derek Featherstone talking about accessibility (since I don’t know anything about it and I should do), being asked to be on the panel at the end (with Alex Russell (!) and Douglas Crockford (!!) and Brendan “inventor of JavaScript” Eich (!!!)), the coolness incarnate that is Firefox 3 and whizzy SVG stuff, having Chris Heilmann spend two days trying to convince me how nice London was even though it did nothing but piss rain solidly the whole time I was there, finally meeting John “Kelly Osbourne” Resig, and having a rather pregnant lady (who may have been this lady) tell me that my talk was so funny that she nearly gave birth during it. That’s not a compliment you hear every day, that one; I was pretty chuffed with that, I have to say. Thankyou! [...]