10th Jul 2003
Exhausted
I haven’t forgotten about what I usually do here. I’ve been
very busy at OSCON, writing
my O’Reilly blog (Wednesday entry).
Sensory overload. Well, not all of the senses. Conferences have a
way of shutting you off to the outside world. One hour chunks
of insight (depending on the speaker, sometimes you only
get 10 minutes of info in an hour…), breaks here and there, and
then more hours. At the end of the day, I flash on the blog
I am to write, and think “hmm, couldn’t I just audioblog this?”
I’m not a reporter oriented writer, spitting back every fact
I hear within minutes and hours.
Here’s what I think I am trying to say: I want to meet more people
and try to network and all that. But doing that gets me all apprehensive
that I’ll be up really late writing my ORN blog. I probably just need to chill out,
not sweat it so much. I want to put fresh stuff out there, and therein
lies my dilemma: can’t split myself in half. I wonder how real reporters
do it.
Some shred of responsibilty kicked in last night, and I skipped a party - of course then I met up
with my pal Mike Schilli (A Perl Guru of the first order) and his wife,
and headed out for some awesome Indian food (lamb masala). I’m
looking forward to the DynDNS party tonight, even if I have to resort
to a large amount of coffee to keep me awake long enough to
have a small amount of beer (file under: not so great idea #273)
So go read my other stuff, and let me know if I’m off-base, right on,
boring, or otherwise. I’m sort of writing in a vacuum. I know people
read the O’Reilly entries … I sat down in a session yesterday, opened
my laptop, and looked over at the screen next to me - hey, my ORN stuff!
Threw me a little. There’s a gazillion other places on the internet to go.
I really like Portland, and wish that I could spend more time
here. I have a 5 minute freeform burst I’ll jot down, when
I’m more energetic. I think I could easily live here!
