{"id":937,"date":"2008-02-24T22:26:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T05:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/02\/24\/northern-voice-2008-what-a-blast\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T22:26:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T05:26:14","slug":"northern-voice-2008-what-a-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/02\/24\/northern-voice-2008-what-a-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Voice 2008 &#8212; what a blast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I returned home from <a href=\"http:\/\/2008.northernvoice.ca\/\">Northern Voice 2008<\/a>, the 4th annual incarnation of this event.  It was the first time I attended, and I had a great time.  Learned a lot, met some terrific people, and experienced a really positive geek vibe &#8212; if that makes sense.  I&#8217;ll post more later &#8212; probably tomorrow? &#8212; but right now I&#8217;m too exhausted.  As soon as we (spouse &amp; I) got off the ferry, we phoned the kids at home, ascertained that most of the food was gone, stopped at the supermarket on the way home to ransom a cow&#8217;s worth of milk and the millions of pounds of additional food required by growing teenagers, continued on our way, fixed lunch, walked the dog, made dinner, and now it&#8217;s time to clean up the kitchen and then collapse into bed.  This is what we domestic professionals call being &#8220;back in harness.&#8221;  Ha.ha.  The drill continues tomorrow, and so on until &#8230;well, just watch birds trying to fledge their young.  It gives a whole new meaning to going ragged at the edges.<\/p>\n<p>Except I don&#8217;t see the birds in actual harness, but then I guess mine is invisible, too.<\/p>\n<p>I did do a stupid thing after getting home &#8212; I spent over two hours going through over 60 pages of photos posted to Flickr that were tagged with <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/search\/?q=nv08&amp;m=tags\">nv08<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/northernvoice\/clusters\/\">northernvoice<\/a>.  My god, people get busy with their cameras!   My eyeballs hurt.<\/p>\n<p>More later, on the actual conference and the great people.  But now it&#8217;s off to the scullery&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I returned home from Northern Voice 2008, the 4th annual incarnation of this event. It was the first time I attended, and I had a great time. Learned a lot, met some terrific people, and experienced a really positive geek vibe &#8212; if that makes sense. I&#8217;ll post more later &#8212; probably tomorrow? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[680,2410,2411,822,1830],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-northernvoice","category-nv08","category-social_networking","category-vancouver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}