First day of any conference is always a bit unnerving – who’s actually attending? Will the panels suck the life out of their audience? Or will it actually be worth your while? At the speakers cocktail party Thursday, the organizers reminded us, that we were what the people had paid to see… Consequently we could be the ones people would twitter about just how boring we made their lives. Now that’s social pressure for you!
9:30-10:00am  Registration & Coffee
Buzzing atmosphere. Some slightly hung-over, others ready for networking right from the start. …

What a hectic week! The flight to Barcelona was a welcomed break from the to-do’s and humongous pile of unread emails.
Pre-ramble
Wednesday evening came and went as I re-did my presentation for Fridays panel over and over. 8 minutes is not a lot of time. Especially when you spend a quarter of that trying to find the English word for the articulated Danish sentence you were thinking of….
Sitting in the plane to Barcelona, we realized that none of us had brought a map, or thought at all about practicalities: how do …

Borgmesteren i Portsmouth, Ohio, træf natten til d.25. september 2009 en utrolig dårlig beslutning. En lokal blogger havde længe forsøgt at få aktindsigt i forløbet omkring opførslen af en legeplads, og den nat blev bloggerens anstrengelser for meget for borgmesteren. I stedet for at give bloggeren, der er en pensioneret professor i engelsk, hvad han bad om, skrev borgmester James D. Kaleb en sviner:
“I think that you’re a worthless piece of s**t and I wouldn’t p**s on you if you were on fire (my opinion). You’re a poor, lonely, jealous, …