Finally made it out to WordCamp in San Francisco.

Some interestingness that I encountered today:

• Chris Lea from Media Temple pitched NGINX. Apparently, it blows away Apache in performance.  Whereas Apache uses forking, NGINX is asynchronous.
• Joseph Scott pitched the Open Source WordPress iPhone App.
• Sam Bauers on maintaining WordPress using SVN. You can now move the content directory outside of the WordPress directory. Symlink to plugins that you want SVN to maintain, like Akismet.
• Noel Jackson used the Rule of Thirds, PHP, and JavaScript to get colors from photos in a blog to create a monochromatic theme, Monotone.

Also got a free t-shirt, lunch, and tons of coffee!

Lunch!

Sea of computers. Are there more computers than people in this picture? Taken at the beginning of Matt Mullenweg's talk

Strange Weather is on view at Eyebeam (http://www.eyebeam.org) in New York City.

http://www.strangeweatherproject.net

A rather mysterious drawing that I made is in a group show at Receiver Gallery. The show is only up for a few days, January 23-26, 2008. It’s a benefit for Artists’ Television Access. Please come by and bid on my drawing! The auction closing party is on Saturday.

Title: Portrait (Overworked)
Ink on Arches paper, 2008, Gilbert Guerrero.

Receiver Gallery:
1415 Valencia St. @ 25th St http://receivergallery.com/

Preview & Silent Auction
Wed-Friday, January 23-25
10 am-6 pm, free

Reception & Auction Closing Party
Saturday, January 26, 2008
7 - 10pm (auction concludes at 8:30 pm)
$10 admission (may be applied towards a purchase); Admission is free for Members.

More info: http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=2741