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On Wordpress, pardon my dust

Yeah, it’s been a long time since Slash7 looked this fugly.

Theme conversion’s got some kinks. Which is OK, because I planned to redo the site design anyway. But I will fix the headings and stuff before spending time on the new design.

Til then, though, I’d be much obliged if you could ignore the bad typography, and let me know if you notice any broken links. Thaaanks!

The Fine Art of Opportunism

No, this is not the start of a post where I point and cackle evilly as I explain how the whole "training course" thing was a sham calculated to help me harvest and sell your email addresses to spammers in Katmandu.

JavaScript Performance Rocks UPDATE!

Just a quick note for those of you who have bought our JavaScript Performance Rocks! ebook & DOM Monster package:

Check your inboxes!

You should have received an email with a pre-final copy of the book. It's pretty much content-complete -- but still has a few editor's notes, and needs a couple minor updates (to cover Safari 4 final, for example), and I plan to add a few more infographics.

Basically, there's just a little bit of polishing left. And I didn't want to keep you waiting any longer!

JS-Fu in DC/Philly & Surrounding?

Thomas & I are planning our fall trip to the US. We were going to speak at the Ajax Experience, but... let's just say that's a story for another day.

We want to offer a 1-day JS master class, one in DC and one in Philly, in early September.

And here's where I could use your help! Can you let me know...

Scripty2: Scriptaculous 2.0 Alpha is Out

This one's a quickie: Thomas, with a little help from his friends, has put out the first alpha for Scripty2 (aka Scriptaculous 2.0).

While there are lots of things missing (autocompleter, etc.), it's pretty damn stable. That's what we've been using for Twistori, the various Zeitgeists, and of course, Freckle time tracking.

Thomas has written a blog post about the update, to which I'd like to add:

In Memoriam: George Carlin, 7 Words You *Can* Say on Twitter

Hate cuss words? Avert thine eyes! (What are you doing reading this blog, though, I'd be interested to know. Oh right. You already looked away. I'm just holding a conversation with myself. Ladeeda...

George Carlin is one of my heroes: hilarious, self-deprecating, edgy without being bitter, envelope-pushing without resorting to valueless shock, remarkably poetic, a dancer with dirty words, and, of course, in possession of an amazing voice I could listen to all day.

He's also dead. Goddamnit.

What I'm reading this weekend

I almost never link blog, but these tabs have been sitting open in my browser for ages because I thought they were truly worth sharing:

Slight delay

Sorry, kids. I came down with an infection of the lining of the intestine (oh BOY!) and it's really slowed me down. In fact, I think it was pretty much my body telling me to slow the fuck down.

JavaScript Performance Rocks! v1 is coming this week for sure, so you can still get it at the lower price if you're sitting on the fence.

Last chance to save $5 on JavaScript Performance Rocks

Subtitle: Where the heck has Amy been!?

Long and short: I been around, baby!

Take 2 months of international travel (including 3 continents), working all the while, 2 conferences, and several biz collaborations. Add moving offices immediately upon return. Add finding, acquiring, and moving to a new apartment a couple weeks after that. Add to that trying to work on 2 in-house products, plus a couple client gigs.

Set it to Blend and you get... my life the past 3 mos. Holy crap, mayhem, tears, the works.

I am NOT going to do that again.

Jelly! Talk Video from SXSW

While at SXSW, Thomas & I were invited to share a Jelly! talk with Naveen of FourSquare. Jelly! talks are put on by Yahoo! and Jelly!, the casual coworking movement. This one was held in the lovely Austin coworking space of Conjunctured.

Here's a link to the video.

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