I recently arrived @ O'Reilly's ETech conference. I missed the web services mash-up earlier today but caught the end of the kilted Ben Hammersley's presentation on Atom, RSS, etc. Very informative. The session concluded w/a not very practical but quite interesting discussion about the philosophical problems of ontologies. Ben himself seems like an interesting fellow- he wants to do solo 600 mile ski trip to the North Pole. Reminds me of my own Antarctic climbing ambitions.
Also, I finally met Susan Mernit in person. She and I had been swapping emails and calls for a while but had not f2f. Nice to meet you Susan.
