xhtml | css | DesignThe republic of Jens Wedin (with me as the president)

If you haven’t seen it, there is now a new beta of IE7 out.

A great friend of mine has released a webshop with t-shirts and such. He´s a graphic artist and working mostly with fine art. He now has made a unique JediSthlm t-shirt. So if you are a fan, support my friend by buying a t-shirt or two.

http://www.onetoomanytshirts.com/

PS I’m the guy on the second page, or a direct link (without the frames)

The trip to London and @media 2006 was a real success, for me at least. I had so much fun and listened to so many great people and talking to many interesting people. It was simply a blast to be there.

Me and my colleague came to London the evening before the event started. We had quick walk, it was just around the corner to the pub where the pre-party was. There we quickly met Jim from Pool which was also staying at the same hotel, what a coincidence. The pub didn’t have any food so we went to Pizza Express to have a slice. After the dinner we went back to the pub. We had a beer and talked to a few people like Roger Johannson and Faruk. We did not stay that late as we where so eager to get up next morning.

Next morning started with my shower didn’t work, so I had to take a bath instead. Luckily I did have the time so I was soaking in the bathtub for an half an hour, then down for breakfast. Quick continental breakfast and the away to the congres. We thought it would take about 15-20 minutes of walk to get there but the place was just a block away so we where there almost first, great, no cue.

The day went by with so much interesting things to listen to. The promised wifi was terrible, I never got my smart phone to connect to the network. Too bad. The lunch was not a standard Swedish lunch if I can say so. More sandwich than food, but what the heck, we where not there for the lunch. At the event we meet a few other Swedes, the whole gang from Net Relations was there. It was nice to meet them all. We also met a guy who is working with online banking on Åland, we had a lot in common as I have worked with online banking for Nordea.

The afternoon went on quickly with a lot of interesting speakers. The highlights from day one was

• Listen to Eric Meyer who talked about how CSS has progressed through the years
• Jon Hicks, Cameron Moll, and Veerle Pieters spoke about design, nice with something less technical
• Jeffrey Veen talked about Web 2.0, Ajax and such, really great speaker

After the daily event we quickly went back to the hotel to drop of all the free stuff we got. Me, Anders and Jim walked up to Piccadilly circus, had quick bite at Burger King, then straight off to the party that was held at some club. We stayed at the party all evening, talked to a bunch of people. It was really nice to meet Roger, Veerle, the gals who worked at VG (hi Norway), the British dudes from South Hampton (I think) and Jim. This was really a nice evening.

Next day was quit busy, we started by getting late as the check out from the hotel took such a long time. Then all day went fine with great speakers, the lunch was the same as the first day. Day 2 highlights

• Listen to Robin Christopherson who talked about accessibility
• Molly E. Holzschlag’s great speach about internationalization
• Nate Koechley’s three busines cases around Yahoo, Yahoo photos and Yahoo mail.

We could’t go to the two sessions as we needed to hurry to the flight back to Sweden, that was really bad as I really wanted to listen to Tantek Çelik and Microformats. Hopefully there will be podcasts and videocasts up shortly.

To summarize. The two days whas really really excelent. Nice to listen to all speakers, It was great for us with two tracks. Then both could go and then we summarize the to each other in the end of the day. The food was not so great. The wifi sucked. Best was probably to meet all people and ‘network’. Talking english went fairly well, well I didn’t need to talk that much english as most people I talked to understood Swedish, even the bartender and the club. Overall, two thumbs up.

Update: All my photos at flickr

Today I´m leaving for London and @media 2006. I´ve been waiting for this event for such a long time now. Last year I had a ticket but changed work so I couldn’t go. But this year it’s really happening. Me and my colleague (Swedish) are going from Skatteverket. (Swedish tax authority).

So “everyone” is going to be there, I hope to have a small chat with all. If I (this is me) and my colleague is standing in a corner and looking stiff, just come by and say hi, we are just shy and English is not our mother tongue language, so bear with us when we try to explain something web 2.0, hehe.
As we are coming to London on Wednesday we where thinking about attending the pre-party:

THE PRE-PARTY

If you are in the area on the evening before the event, come along to the pre-party (well, it’s more of a relaxed fancy meet-up for @media attendees, really) from around 7:30pm at The Feathers which is on 18 Broadway, near St James’s Park station:
maps.google.com

I’m bringing my camera so I´ll add a bunch of photos to flickr when there is time. I´ve seen that there are already some tags about @media2006 at flickr.

This one seems to be really nice when working from multiple browsers. A plugin for Firefox that syncs all settings, like bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords. Houston, we are really leaving the desktop. (via)

• Google Browser Sync

New version of the upcoming Firefox 2.0 was released on friday.