What I did at SXSW

18 March 2007

(a partial story, via twitter - more to follow)

pixeldiva is on the ground in London. Home at last. 09:36 AM March 15, 2007

pixeldiva is on the plane, waiting for take-off. Good-bye USA, thanks for everything. 02:23 AM March 15, 2007

pixeldiva is eating ice cream and mini oreos and waiting for boarding to start. 01:56 AM March 15, 2007

pixeldiva is eating chicken nuggets from Wendy's and waiting for the flight back home. 01:20 AM March 15, 2007

pixeldiva is on the ground in Dulles. 12:34 AM March 15, 2007

pixeldiva has just got on the plane from gate 23. Thanks everyone she met (and some she didn't) for a fabulous first US and SXSW experience. 09:33 PM March 14, 2007

pixeldiva just passed Dan Rubin on the way to the gate at the airport. Now watching the rain and hugging a stuffed armadillo. Will miss Texas. *sniff* 08:20 PM March 14, 2007

pixeldiva has resolved the international conflict with minimal casualties. Is at Homeslice having pizza before heading to the airport. 05:37 PM March 14, 2007

pixeldiva has just had the guy on the front desk of her hotel apologise to her for George Bush and Dick Cheney. Funny. 03:56 PM March 14, 2007

pixeldiva is still trying to resolve international conflict. Deadline approaching fast. Insert music of high tension here. 03:51 PM March 14, 2007

pixeldiva thinks that "giggle hangover" is a great phrase to describe how I'm feeling this morning. 02:55 PM March 14, 2007

pixeldiva is packing. Which may be more entertaining than it sounds. 02:48 PM March 14, 2007

pixeldiva is going for breakfast, and hoping that the international conflict gets resolved while I'm away. 01:57 PM March 14, 2007

pixeldiva is up, awake, and trying to resolve international conflict. 01:43 PM March 14, 2007

pixeldiva didn't win a wii. 09:22 PM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva is waiting to see if she's won a wii. 08:37 PM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva is chilling out in a musical pod chair, listening to Indian Summer by America. 04:47 PM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva is in the typography sucks panel. 03:41 PM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva looks out of the window to see grey skies and rain. changes mind about what to wear. 01:44 PM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva cringes. 01:37 PM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva wonders what franklyRichmond has against accessibility testers 01:23 PM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva is going to bed, to sleep the sleep of the truly exhausted. 06:06 AM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva is now in Paradise. 05:06 AM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva is mildly moist and getting wetter by the minute. 04:35 AM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva is drinking root beer, which tastes like sweetened TCP. 03:57 AM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva is wondering where chicken fried steak has been all my life. 03:46 AM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva is savouring the experience of root beer, chicken fried steak and milkshake to a soundtrack of lynard skynard 03:11 AM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva is at 20x2, enjoying the ambiance. 12:19 AM March 13, 2007

pixeldiva would shoot. 10:49 PM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva is seeing the future of JavaScript. 09:10 PM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva has rocked WalMart, and had the best chilli cheese fries ever for lunch at Casino El Camino. 08:00 PM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva is getting huge amounts out of the Get Unstuck panel. 03:59 PM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva is in the Get Unstuck: Moving From 1.0 to 2.0 panel 03:08 PM March 12, 2007 from web Icon_star_empty Icon_trash

pixeldiva has just checked, and it's a beautiful morning in Austin. 02:02 PM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva slept and is now awake, listening to weird american morning radio show as I start to get ready for the day. 01:36 PM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva should, by all rights, be sleeping, but instead is totally wide awake and wired. weird. 06:50 AM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva isn't worried about what she might find, can't be any worse than t**girl, but is on a work laptop so isn't going to google anything dodgy. 06:50 AM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva is in ur hotel room, lyin on ur bed 06:43 AM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva is in ur hilton bar, drinkin ur patron 05:50 AM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva is on your bus, leaving your bowling. 05:07 AM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva is rocking at smurf by smurfwest - http://www.flickr.com/photo... 01:04 AM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva is in ur bowling alley, with ur molly, eatin ur pizza 12:50 AM March 12, 2007

pixeldiva is wondering where the rest of the Brit Insurgence Force are. 11:11 PM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva is all panelled out. Hiding out in the day stage cafe to catch up with herself again. 10:11 PM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva is way out of her depth in the future of javascript panel, wonders if she can leave without making too much noise. 09:11 PM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva is in the Future of JavaScript panel 09:04 PM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva is feeling very concerned in the AJAX or Flash panel. 08:45 PM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva is in the AJAX or Flash panel 08:35 PM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva is sitting in the hallway, and has the only pc in sight. Feels weird. 08:10 PM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva is sitting two rows behind Anton in "Why we should ignore users" 03:04 PM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva is back in her hotel room, with proper old style twangy country blues music left playing for me on the radio. So wrong, and yet, so right. 07:17 AM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva is discussing twitter. 06:36 AM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva pondering on accessibility in the high class/low class web design panel 12:00 AM March 11, 2007

pixeldiva wishing she could tell what the songs that are playing in the hall are - there's been some good music 10:49 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva thinking that grids totally rock 09:50 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva has decided to go to the Grids are Good panel. 09:03 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva finds it strange that people said that the type of music doesn't influence the types of work they do, cos she's very influenced by music 06:08 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva is feeling inspired 05:54 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva is in the influence of art and design panel, listening to erik sagen talk about pop culture 05:47 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva has internet. yay. 05:24 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva wishing she could get on the wifi for more than just gtalk/twitter 04:34 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva is in the emerging social and technology trends panel 04:19 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva feels slightly odd. thinks it might be jet lag. goes for shower to try and get rid of weirdness. 02:58 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva is going for breakfast. Wondering if she'll be brave enough to try grits, if they offer them. 02:10 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva is up and awake, and slightly freaked out by the fact that Austin is foggy rather than sunny right now 01:40 PM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva desperately needs to sleep, but is too wired and buzzed by the experiences of the last 24 hours (and the last 8 in particular) to be able to 04:44 AM March 10, 2007

pixeldiva is in Austin, eating a sandwich and chatting with some locals. Has had a total of 4 hours sleep in the last 36. Is slightly wired. 09:13 PM March 09, 2007

pixeldiva is on the ground in Washington DC. 04:12 PM March 09, 2007

pixeldiva is in the departure lounge with two hours to go, after the shortest check in and security process ever. Typical! 05:58 AM March 09, 2007

pixeldiva is in a taxi, heading for Heathrow. 04:54 AM March 09, 2007

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Left comments

Sounds like you had a whale of a time! :-)

You might want to put the feed back into proper time order at some point though...

Looking forward to the expansion of thought.

Nikki
19 March 2007

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