A-har mateys!

If you're reading this on September 19th (which, incidentally, is my half-birthday), you might notice that my whole website has been auto-magically translated into pirate talk.

How, you might wonder? And why?

I actually have a great story about last year's Talk Like a Pirate Day, when I was preparing for Web of Change (which starts on Wednesday!) and needed biographies from everyone, and hadn't had one from Kris yet. And so went to Bryght.com looking for it... and found all the bios in pirate-speak... and thought it was just Bryght trying to be all hip and cool and write their bios like they were too cool for school. I didn't actually figure out what had happened until months later... and by then I knew that yes, the Bryght Boys really are that kind of cool, but no, for 364 days a year their bios are in normal English. Ha.

So anyway. Have a spin through the archives! Things are sure to be entertaining. :)

An old friend emailed me today to tell me that she enjoys reading my blog, but doesn't understand most of it. It made me smile, and got me thinking a bit. Thanks for the feedback, Deb. :)

It's true that a lot of my recent posts have been fairly geekery-focused. I don't want to discourage non-geek readers, but I guess the truth of the matter is that I spend a lot of time working with and thinking about web-related stuff lately, and that's what I'm inclined to post about. It probably also means that my parents aren't reading this regularly. (Though if I'm wrong, leave a comment, eh Mum/Dad?)

I'm soaking up a lot of new information rather quickly these days. Richard just said to me, in response to my comment that I feel like my on-ramp into geekdom has been fast and steep, that "hanging out at the Bryght office is like drinking from the firehose." True. It also leads to writing posts that normal people can't make any sense of. But I have to say that I've been enjoying learning to speak geek... I just need to remember to bring it on back to the real world!

I just downloaded Qumana, in the hopes that it will allow me some functionality that my beloved Drupal blog doesn't yet... most particularly, the ability to write a post in advance and publish it a specified time in the future. I don't see how to do that, though... Drat.

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This morning I went to a "Sustainability Breakfast" hosted by Alcan, to inform the community about the upcoming 30 Days of Sustainability.

The 30 Days - "30 Days That Will Change the World" - are happening in Vancouver during the month of March. There's a whole ton of stuff going on every day, and the vision is pretty big. I hope it totally takes off and establishes Vancouver even more firmly on the path of being a world leader in this arena.

It was fun to see such a big cross-section of folks in the room - it was packed, and full of people that I know from lots of different "circles" in my life. I like when the circles start to overlap!

Not to be critical of a well-intentioned and exciting intiative, but I have to say that I'm kind of disappointed in the web strategy (or more specifically, the timing on it). They've got Raincity Studios working on what will be a kick-ass, dynamic Bryght site, but it's not going to be launched until the end of February. Which is a little late, I'd argue. If the 30 Days people do a good job with marketing and promotion, they'll have people on Google all month trying to find information about what's going on... without an informative site to visit. Darn.