Viget is a sponsor of BarCamp DC on August 11th.  I’ll be there along with several of folks from the Viget team.  Don’t know what a BarCamp is?

For those BarCamp newbies out there, you should know that attendance is free, but this isn’t your mom’s “sit-and-listen” type conference. Attendees are expected to participate by presenting, demoing, or facilitating a group discussion. Being an unconference, the schedule and topics are organized ad-hoc the day of the event.

Looking forward to it …

If you’ve talked with techies lately, you’ve probably noticed that they start every sentence with “so” and they end every sentence with “right?”  Not a heavy “right?!” — more of a rhetorical “right” that strikes an odd balance between confident authority and transparent self-doubt, both mashed together with a yearning for support and acceptance.  It’s like leading and following with a single inflection.  It always makes me want to interrupt and say “are you asking me or telling me?”

This isn’t new, but I used to think it was isolated to a few people I know.  It seems to have now spread to everyone on earth.  Is this just because someone told them to stop saying “um” all the time?

So, don’t get me wrong, right, because I do it too.  Even worse, I still say “um” all the time to boot.

I’ve been blogging for a while in various places on various topics, and I’ve found it to be personally rewarding.  So, I decided to spend 10 minutes tonight setting up wordpress, with no real plan beyond that.  Maybe I’ll get bored tomorrow and never write here again.  Maybe I’ll really want to blog here, but I’ll decide that the million other things I try to do each day are more important.  Maybe I’ll find documenting my random thoughts of the day so fulfilling that I’ll write reams (or the digital equivalent) of commentary and develop a massive following. 

Only time will tell, and my gut tells me that the best way to start is to not really care.