{"id":488,"date":"2007-05-09T21:52:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T02:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/488"},"modified":"2007-05-09T21:52:48","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T02:52:48","slug":"its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/488","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While perusing a friend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/threerubberduckies.net\/\">new site<\/a> this evening, I realized that it has been a<em> long long<\/em> time since I last blogged. That&#8217;s just no good. A lot has been going on&#8230;so let&#8217;s play catch-up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karen&#8217;s sister had a baby! That put me in New York City for a few weekends in mid April. Welcome to the world, Matthew.<\/li>\n<li>I missed out as a bunch of my friends headed to San Jose for CHI2007. From the pictures, it looks like they had a great time. I&#8217;m sad that I missed out.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m on a project for work in North Carolina, and I even get to work with some real designers. Generally, I&#8217;m the sole designer on a project, but on this one I&#8217;m just one of four. It&#8217;s great because we get to bounce ideas off of each other. Still, the design bit is tough for me because I have less context in the design space than they do. But I do get to play with some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Presentation_Foundation\">new technology<\/a>&#8230;the jury is still out on whether I&#8217;m a fan. It does look cool though. The problem is that I&#8217;m really interested in Open Source stuff now that I&#8217;m a real life contributor to a <a href=\"http:\/\/cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com\">project<\/a>&#8230;so we&#8217;ll see how far this goes.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve started to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a>. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jevnin\">follow me <\/a>through my days &#038; nights.<\/li>\n<li>Last weekend I was in Denver for ThoughtWorks Away Day. I did a talk about Contextual Design&#8230;it was pretty well received. But more on that later.<\/li>\n<li>In the last 38 days I&#8217;ve been at home for roughly 48 hours. (And some of those hours are distributed among separate days&#8230;) One could say I&#8217;m homesick. Oh what I&#8217;d give to sleep in my own bed.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m getting psyched for some visitors, it seems that&#8217;s what May is all about. Sarthak, Sejal, Puneet, Scott, and sister Tami are all coming out to Chicago, and in that order. I can&#8217;t wait to see all of them.<\/p>\n<p>All right, I think we&#8217;re caught up for the moment. More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While perusing a friend&#8217;s new site this evening, I realized that it has been a long long time since I last blogged. That&#8217;s just no good. A lot has been going on&#8230;so let&#8217;s play catch-up. Karen&#8217;s sister had a baby! That put me in New York City for a few weekends in mid April. Welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambling","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}