Life update: In the months since I last wrote in this website, lots of things have happened. New projects have started and old projects have been dropped or completed. As far as my personal life is concerned, I’ve gone through many life-altering events, as I continue on trying to decide what the hell I’m doing (a question that remains unanswered to a prodigious degree).

In the personal level, the following is a fast recap:

• Met girl.
• Fell in love with girl.
• Moved in with girl.
• Things went awry.
• Moved out.
• Currently waiting for delivery of new place.

It’s difficult for me to write about this subject, and —given how much it meant to me— metaphorically relegate the whole period to what amounts to a footnote in my life (is that what we all are? footnotes in someone else’s cycle around a big ball of ignited gas?).

I will just say that she is, by all measures of the word, an amazing girl, and the relationship was fantastic while it lasted.

And so on…

Regarding South by Southwest and the (unofficially named) “Fuck Standards” panel:

It went famously”

Although there were some misgivings at the beginning, and we were genuinely worried we’d be pelted with decomposing vegetables, our message was not as far-fetched and offensive as the title suggested. The feedback was generally good (we made the SxSW honor roll, yay!), and all involved had a great time. Since other people have done a better job of summarizing the whole thing than I could, I’ll give you a few links to the lavishly detailed. the good, the bad, the general and the sexy.

I had an amazing time, and was incredibly glad to see old friends once more (even though Jeremy Keith did threaten to force choke me when he found out the subject for the panel). I will write a more detailed post on this later. For the time being, here’s a PDF of the presentation in case you want to peruse it:

Standards Deviation: Hacks and dirty tricks for the web (pdf)

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