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Jake and I attended An Event Apart earlier this week in Boston. It was possibly the greatest work related experience of my life.

The speakers were fantastic. Normally conferences consist of two or three sessions that might be considered useful or interesting. This conference was 2 days of sheer brilliance. If you are in the web development field and you have any interest in standards, accessibility, and usability (which you should) you must attend An Event Apart in one of the cities that it will visit.

I need to decompress a bit before I start telling any stories about the trip. More to come.

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Filed by AxsDeny at 3:45 pm under General
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Thanks Cindy. This is the kind of quote you get when I’ve just returned from a conference.

“We can also see that the sidebar cells have collapsed to no width at all.”

From Eric Meyer on CSS, by Eric A. Meyer.

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Spotted in the window of a flower shop in Oakmont.

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Three guys, one Irish, one English, and one Scottish, are out walking along the beach together one day. They come across a lantern and a Genie pops out of it. “I will give you each one wish, that’s three wishes in total”, says the Genie.

The Scottish guy says, “I am a fisherman, my Dad’s a fisherman, his Dad was a fisherman and my son will be one too. I want all the oceans full of fish for all eternity.” So, with a blink of the Genie’s eye FOOM! the oceans were teaming with fish.

The Englishman was amazed, so he said, “I want a wall around England, protecting her, so that no one will get in for all eternity.” Again, with a blink of the Genie’s eye POOF! there was a huge wall around England.

The Irishman asks, “I’m very curious. Please tell me more about this wall.” The Genie explains, “well, it’s about 150 feet high, 50 feet thick, protecting England so that nothing can get in or out.”

The Irishman says, “Fill it up with water.”

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Filed by AxsDeny at 12:52 pm under Funny, General
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Many people are familiar with The Konami Code. For those that are unfamiliar, please read the Wikipedia entry on it before you read any further.

I’ve been asking multiple people what they think of when the hear the words “Konami Code.” Some people have no idea what I’m talking about. Others immediately rattle off one of a few variations of the code:

1. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A START
2. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A SELECT START
3. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A B A START
4. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A B A SELECT START

Of these four responses you will notice that there are 2 sets of code types; those that use the extra “B A” and those that use “SELECT.” The code itself (that is, #1 and #2) works fine without entering the second “B A.” This leads me to a few conclusions. My first thought is that people are remembering incorrectly and since the other commands are doubled, they are thinking that the “B A” is doubled. My second idea is that people always thought the code actually contained the extra characters and the games were just forgiving by ignoring the extra characters after the original code was successfully entered. The third possibility (and the most likely) is that the code was inconsistent across the NES Konami games.

One last thing to mention: most people that I asked included “SELECT” in their response. This indicates that they were playing in two player mode. I have never included “SELECT” when I recite the code. Therefore, the only logical conclusion that any sane person could come to… is that I clearly had no friends. Game Over.

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