
A few of the attendees looking over the topics board to
pick out which sessions they're going to go to.

And I'm going to stay this way all day long! In honor of "CSS Naked Day", 5Valleys is going to spend the day lounging around the web in the nude.
I don't consider myself anything remotely close to a designer. My aesthetic eye is completely non-existent (anybody who's seen me try to dress myself knows this). Which is why, once I grasped an understanding of the full power of CSS and learned how to set up a CSS friendly site, I came to really appreciate CSS. This way, I can turn over the beautification of the site (not this one specifically, this crap is all my doing) to a talented designer who can just work some CSS magic and make it all pretty.
Therefore, to help draw attention to CSS and promote web standards, 5Valleys is joining hundreds (thousands?) of other websites around the web, and turning off it's CSS for the day. See who's all playing along at the CSS Naked Day page. My apologies to those who followed a link here hoping to see a picture of me with my Johnson swinging in the breeze. Maybe next year.
Anyway, we managed to get some really good seats, and I managed to get almost the entire speech on video, which I'm now trying to get uploaded to youtube in 5 parts. The links to each are below (or will be once I get them all uploaded.) My camera's memory card decided that it had had enough politics for one day just seconds before the end of the speech, so that's where my footage ends. He was just wrapping up at that point though, so nothing of substance was missed.
Obama and BarCamp are coming to Missoula. Thankfully, not on the same day.
Thanks to my new Missoulian RSS Feed (what? huh? move along, nothing to see here... next post on that subject) I just found out that Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is having a free rally at the Adams Center Saturday morning. I'd be there even if it was Bush III, I mean John McCain. This is history in the making folks!
And on a completely unrelated note, Missoula is having it's own BarCamp on April 26th (also a Saturday). What's a BarCamp? According to Wikipedia....
The official site for Missoula's contribution is at http://missoulabarcamp.org. Registration is required. Early registration recommended. I hope to see a great turnout of Missoula's Tech Professionals.
After the CalTech Solar Power lecture, I got the idea that I should post here about events that I'm planning to attend so that maybe others with the same interests might hear about them and want to go too. And maybe those who find themselves regularly attending the same things I do, might notify me of events I haven't heard of yet. Then, on a bathroom wall, I discover a poster informing me (and now you) that...
On Monday, November 5th at 4:00pm, executive editor of Wired magazine Bob Cohn will be giving a talk at the Missoula Art Museum. NewWest.Net says it "promises to be a fascinating conversation about Wired, technology, the Internet and the evolution of the media world." I think I might even manage to stay on the clock and drag along some co-workers for this one. See you there!