My attempt to escape winter has failed
I am in Miami. First off, I would like to apologize to the citizens of Miami for bringing the cold weather with me. It’s been cold (relatively) and windy since I got here yesterday. Second, I would like to apologize to my readers because the coherency of the following post will likely reflect how exhausted I am.
Last summer, I told my boss that when I was hired, the managing editor promised to send me to a conference somewhere interesting and that I hoped that promise would be fulfilled. And after I found out that Future of Web Apps 2008 was going to be in Miami, I told him that’s where I wanted to go. And given the choice between giving me what I want or listening to me whine until the end of time, he bought the plane tickets and booked the hotel.
And then this morning, when I walked over to the conference center, I discovered the Miami Herald was right across the street from FOWA. And then I emailed the web editor and begged for a tour.
Tomorrow, I get to tour the Wichita Eagle’s parent company’s largest newspaper. Maybe I’ll get to meet Dave Barry.
I’ll spare you all the uber-nerdy scoop from the conference. (Twitter, Digg and Flickr developers discussing how they partition their databases? That’s hot.) But let’s just say I’m enjoying being one of relatively few chicks at a tech convention.
Me: So where do you work?
Him: I work for the Census Bureau, actually.
Me: AWESOME.
Him: Uh, not really.
Me: I’m a data nerd. The Census is like Mecca.
Him: …
Okay, maybe I’m still a social wreck even among a sea of nerds.
