{"id":3209,"date":"2005-03-20T17:23:03","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T01:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/20\/gnomedex-comes-to-seattle\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:49:14","slug":"gnomedex-comes-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/20\/gnomedex-comes-to-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnomedex comes to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8673,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gnomedex.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230216131905\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.gnomedex.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 14:39:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 14:39:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8674,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.julieleung.com\\\/archives\\\/001756.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20070817174915\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.julieleung.com:80\\\/archives\\\/001756.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 14:39:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 14:39:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnomedex.com\/\" title=\"Gnomedex 5.0\">Gnomedex<\/a>, one of the big blog\/tech\/geek\/pick-a-descriptor conferences is coming to Seattle this summer, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.julieleung.com\/archives\/001756.html\" title=\"Seedlings and Sprouts: Speaking at Gnomedex 5.0\">Julie&#8217;s going to be speaking<\/a>. Congrats, Julie!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to admit, I&#8217;d love to be able to go to this thing. While I&#8217;m <em>hardly<\/em> one of the &#8220;big players&#8221; in the blogosphere &#8212; heck, most of the people who are going to be there probably would only know me because of my adventures at Microsoft &#8212; I think it&#8217;d be fascinating to be able to meet some of these people, get an idea at what it&#8217;s like to be part of one of these conferences I read about from time to time, sit in on the sessions, and generally absorb the atmosphere and see what all goes on. Besides, while I may not be one of the movers-and-shakers in the tech world, I&#8217;ve been tracking and using many of the technologies that these people have come up with and influenced over the past few years, and it would be neat to see a little bit of the &#8220;insider&#8217;s view&#8221; of everything.<\/p>\n<p>The downside, of course, is that the registration fee for the conference is a bit out of my reach at the moment ($399). Technically, I could probably afford to sign up (though it would be tight), but that&#8217;s a big enough chunk of money with my current operating budget that I just can&#8217;t justify spending it on the event &#8212; that&#8217;s money that would be put to far better use for food, paying off bills (which I&#8217;m finally starting to get a handle on&#8230;it&#8217;s slow going, but progress is being made), and other such day-to-day sundries.<\/p>\n<p><ins>Note: This isn&#8217;t a complaint at all about the cost &#8212; I&#8217;m under no illusions about how much it might take (both financially and in the actual work itself) to put one of these conferences on &#8212; merely a reflection of my own current state. :)<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll just grab my camera and head down there every so often during the conference weekend and play the role of the blog world&#8217;s geeky-fan-boy-cum-slightly-freaky-stalker.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;Hey&#8230;guys&#8230;don&#8217;t look now, but that weird guy in the skirt is following us again.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=Bridge is Over%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Bridge is Over' on the iTMS\">Bridge is Over<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBoogie Down Productions%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Boogie Down Productions on the iTMS\">Boogie Down Productions<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=Hits From The Vault Vol. 1: The Pioneers%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Hits From The Vault Vol. 1: The Pioneers on the iTMS\">Hits From The Vault Vol. 1: The Pioneers<\/a><\/em> (1981, 3:26).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Gnomedex, one of the big blog\/tech\/geek\/pick-a-descriptor conferences is coming to Seattle this summer, and Julie&#8217;s going to be speaking. Congrats, Julie! I&#8217;d love to go, but it&#8217;s out of my budget this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2038],"tags":[13,65],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tech","tag-life","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}