I’m at WordCamp Portland 2011, and updated my install today. Figured this warranted a post. Will do a recap later in the week.
Category: Blogging
WordCamp Portland 2009 Recap
This past weekend (Sept 19-20) and Portland, Oregon were the setting for the likes of
- Matt Mullenweg and Jane Wells of Automattic
- Scott Porad from the icancheezburger network
- Tyler Sticka, designer at Waggener Edstrom
- Will Norris, one of the core developers of Shibboleth and author of the OpenID plugin for WordPress
- viper007bond, one of the most prolific WordPress plugin developers
- Aaron Hockley, founder of the Portland WordPress Users Group
- Justin Kistner, senior manager of social media at WebTrends (and designer of some of the sites I currently manage)
- Rick Turoczy, from Silicon Florist, a blog about web startups in the Portland area
- and countless others
These folks and others, along with awesome food from Whiffies Pies, Windmer Beer, Zupans, Resers, Coconut Bliss ice cream, Cup Cake Jones— and the awesome folks at WebTrends for providing the venue for the event— made for an AMAZING WordCamp.
Also a big thanks to my buddy Tristan for letting me crash at his apartment Saturday night and helping me find my way around town. Tristan’s former roommate from Eugene, Aaron was also there. They both live and do freelance web development in Portland, so it was also a great networking opportunity for them.
This is a fairly long post, so continue after the break if you will 🙂
Nine Months
I keep thinking about my blog and it keeps sitting on the back burner. It’s not for lack of things I could be talking about, shit in the past 9 months, I’ve…
- competed in a city league ski racing league, and our team won the whole season
- had the worst Christmas ever #christmasfail08
- been [positively] excited about a presidential inauguration
- played a UO officially sanctioned flip cup tournament with the club sports olympics, and we WON
- broke a slalom ski 🙁
- went from 5 down to 2 e-mail accounts, and one of those may be going a way soon
- met a girl, her name is Angela, many of you have even met her by now
- graduated from college!!!!!!!!!
- successfully survived a road trip with Angela through 9 states
- Yellowstone, Ren Faire, Badlands, Wall Drug, SLC, etc…
- partaken in a few dancing lessons (ssssh! don’t tell anyone!)
- somehow convinced Angela to buy a Mac
- dealt with 2 flat tires in 2 different states I don’t live in, and neither one on my personal vehicle
- turned 27
- competed in 9 waterski tournaments in 6 different states, and waterskied in a 7th state
- including Collegiate National All-Stars for slalom+trick, and AWSA Western Regionals for 3-event (and qualified for but didn’t go to AWSA Nationals)!
- upgraded my wordpress blog, twice, without posting anything
- volunteered with a church group on a construction project
- bought a Playstation 2 from a thrift store for $12.50 and repaired it myself
- sold my old DSLR and bought a spiffy new one, and taken thousands of photos with it
- attended a number of concerts
- given up on my football team, due to some unFavreable circumstances
- finally started getting my online portfolio and résumé up-to-date
…and some other stuff too, I assure you. But now that you’re updated on my life, maybe now I can get this site fully back on track again?