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Back; home safe; car did not fall apart; and I’m slightly more tan than when I went. A successful, v. fun trip. And it was so, so good to see Ms. and . Biznamshiznit sums it up better than I could. Pictures to come, eventually.

[our first big press release; for wide distribution; edits and translations are coordinated here] Wikimania 2006 The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the second annual Wikimania convergence, Wikimania 2006. The event will bring together members of the Wikimedia project communities, internet professionals and visionaries, and academics from a wide range of fields sharing the [...]

1) That I was getting paid for working on the conference. Would I be as dedicated, and feel as righteous about it, if I were drawing salary for this? Hard to say; what makes for a good justification for doing something? 2) That my car wasn’t still rattling, even after taking it to two (2) [...]

Buffy and I are reviewing papers. It’s fairly entertaining, especially paired with yummy pizza and my favorite cheap Pinot Grigio. But lest you think I win most boring Saturday night award, I spent most of today in San Francisco, where I visited City Lights, which was a personal highlight, and saw ROUS’es* in the street [...]

Hey hey! Jason Webley’s coming to Davis. I never saw him while I was up in Seattle, so here we go, making up for lost time. I just got back from seeing Mrs. Henderson Presents. It was fantabulous. One of the wittier scripts I’ve heard in a long time, and Dame Judy Dench is a [...]

Home safe, but sick. I caught a cold sometime over the weekend and spent a miserable evening flying back last night (late flight, middle seat, stuffy sinuses that hurt every time we changed altitudes, slight fever so I was too hot but too uncomfortable to do anything but try and sleep…) but am now home, [...]