I'm not ever planning to be the kind of blogger who writes "this is what I did today" every day for years on end; I'm more interested in writing things that I'd actually like to read, either as you or as a future me trying to remember WTF was going on way back in 2007.
Today will be a good day to remember, very likely the high point of a good week -- and this is shaping up to be a good month.
First, I was invited by the
Global Digital Freedom Institute and the
Packet Clearing House to participate in a discussion with representatives from the U.S. State Department and a dozen or so industry leaders, about fostering the (as I'd put it) sane emergence of technology in the developing world. This is likely to be an ongoing conversation, and I hope to become further involved.
While there, I also had the opportunity to connect and/or re-connect with some very interesting folks from & near the
NANOG community, which I'd kinda drifted away from since giving up any pretense of being a router geek and going fully anti-spam seven or eight years ago.
So then I get to work, zoom through the most important tasks, sit in on a conference call, and then spent an hour as volunteer staff for the
2007 OSCMS Summit. I'll be returning for another few hours tomorrow. Conferences are fun!
And after that, I rushed up to
The Booksmith on Haight St. in San Francisco for a reading & book-signing with
Kim Stanley Robinson, one of my favorite authors. It was both interesting and inspiring, and just generally fun. As he signed my freshly purchased copy of his latest book,
Sixty Days and Counting, I asked (as I'm sure many folks do) for his advice to an aspiring writer. Without hesitation, he recommended
The Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop at UCSD, which I'd already decided to try to go to in a few years.
Then I ate some fish & chips, and had one of those rare especially nice drives home where I was alternately thinking hard, babbling out loud, and singing along to whatever my iPod served up. Yay.
