My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
The government discriminates against blind people by printing money that all looks and feels the same, a federal judge said Tuesday in a ruling that could change the face of American currency. U.S. District Judge James Robertson ordered the Treasury Department to come up with ways for the blind to tell bills apart. He said he wouldn’t tell officials how to fix the problem, but he ordered them to begin working on it.
Ana had a good candy run. It was very very cold but she had a really good time. She looked very cute.
We made it home. I’m going to crash for a few days.
We just landed in St. Paul about thirty minutes ago. The flight from Detroit was the longest flight I’ve ever been on. We spent at least twenty minutes in the plane before takeoff and it was getting quite warm. The flight itself was quite uneventful. I can’t say the same for the landing. We landed hard and then the pilot slammed on the brakes. Everyone lurched forward in their seats and you could hear the bags in the overhead compartment shift toward the front of the plane.
Well, I’m sitting in the Rochester museum uploading pictures to Flickr and waiting for my plane. Security was no problem this time and the TSA screeners were really friendly and helpful. Everything went smoothly and it took literally 2 minutes for me to get cleared through. Maybe things aren’t so bad after all.
Our Ruby on Rails presentation won best of track! We present twice more in a few minutes, and then we’re going home!
The planetarium and science museum trip was awesome. After the day’s events were done, we were picked up by school buses and taken to the museum. Each floor of the three-story museum featured tables with food and an open bar, and we had the whole museum to ourselves. There were some incredible exhibits and I did take pictures but I’m still uploading them to Flickr. I also have a pretty cool video clip of the dinosaur robots.
This conference is awesome. The presentations on Fair Use and application security were well worth my time. Dale Grady, presenter for the application security presentation, has developed a great code scanner that can pinpoint possible vulnerabilities in code so that it won’t be deployed. I’m really interested in developing something like this for UW-Eau Claire so if anyone wants to collaborate with me, I’d love the help. We’re getting ready to head out to the science museum and planetarium, I’ll take lots of pictures although I don’t know how well that would work out.
I’m writing this on my WordPress blog while sitting in a great presentation about WordPress. I started out the morning watching a really well-done presentation on optimizing pages for search engines. The presenter made some excellent points and I’ll be changing how I do some of my optimization from now on. This presentation is great. It has confirmed the things I already knew and has taught me some things as well, such as the search engine on this site is only good for searching posts and not pages.
The first day was great. Some of the big things of the day were Shooting and producing videos using Vegas Video and Flash Our Ruby on Rails presenation Giving effective presentations A great presentation on the FieldSet Really good presentation about Apache configuration. After the conference, several of us traveled to Dinosaur BBQ and had a ton of food. We had to wait about 90 minutes for a table but in the end it was well worth the wait.