Bevan Rudge JavaScript and web technologist

I arrived in Boston yesterday afternoon, absolutely exhausted after Usability testing at UMN -- which was amazing. See the report at 9am on Monday to hear why. It was snowing heavily here this morning. Today I need to prepare for my presentation on Scalable Theming and my parts of the Usability presentation, and try open another US bank account.

Here's my photoblog to date:

[Update: this had the wrong tag to get on Planet Drupal]

I'm really looking forward to DrupalCon Boston 2008. The highlight for me will likely be meeting a bunch of really great people I have come to know, respect and be inspired by;

• Everyone at CivicActions; My awesome colleagues and team-mates for the last 6 months.
• Dries Buytaert; For obvious reasons.
• Karoly Chx Negyesi; It's been great having your support on SoU. I want to put a voice to your words, code-comments and even php code!
• Folk from the Usability Group; Eigentor, Gaele, SteveJB, Yoroy, CousinHub and many others.
• Neil Drumm; You're usability discussion at BADcamp (I listened to the podcast) was inspiring and interesting for me.
• Kent Bye; You have contributed a lot of videos and screenshots that have been inspiring for me. Then there's Backtrace Vizualizer which is just amazing.
• Angie Webchick Byron; You're never-ending support is inspiring and motivating. Where do you get all that energy from?
• And too many others to list here...

Please help me get to DrupalCon Boston! Funds will help improve usability in Drupal by allowing me to dedicate more time to various usability projects. Thank you for your support.

[Update: This had the wrong tag to get on Planet Drupal]
As others have noted, the DrupalCon Boston logo contest is closing soon, so you'd better get your votes in.

Here are my personal favourites;

1. About 3rd as far as user-votes go, with 36 points; DB8
   
2. LauraS only just submitted this one, so it's only got a few votes so far: BoSox style by Don Hajicek at pingVision
   

While psyching myself up for DrupalCon Boston 2008 I was browsing downtown Boston in google maps, I found this weird occurance of an accidental 'impossible picture:

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