Supper at cwas hearty. So was the conversation.

From left to right, one of my favorite bloggers, Gregor Rothfuss, tech journalist William Reilly, open source leader Michael Wechner, and me. 

Gregor told us stories of Burning Man. Holy effigy. Gift/barter economy in the high desert. Parties all night. Concerts. Old West movie sets constructed for the week. Rituals and ceremonies for 30,000 people. How do you go to Seybold or any plain old computer show after Burning Man?

William is bringing his serious development experience to Seybold, reporting for CMS Review (I have a little press-pass envy). He asks insightful questions in a quiet way, but that may have been the jet lag from Boston.

Michael and Greg are here from Zurich, although Greg is looking for Cambridge digs.

Michael and Greg are bootstrapping Wyona : R&D, creating custom moblogging ASPs. If people will pay for ringtones, will they pay to post photos from their phones? Who are the natural partners for this technology? If people post from their phones, what is needed to help them find and surf their part of the blogosphere?

Michael is at Seybold to host and compete in tonight's OSCOM Hackathon/Sprint, featuring WebDAV and the Atom spec. I love code sprints. It's the height of voyeurism, seeing someone's most intimate programming secrets, the little tricks they use under pressure. If you're in town, stop by.

[a klog apart]

Pakistani madrasas are selling the video of Daniel Pearl's execution. I gotta get Bernard-Henri Levy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl? .