being home w/o @scorlosquet

Its not the easiest thing to be in a new town without the company of your nearest and dearest. Steph is off in Washington at the 8th Int. Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2009).  I'm very proud of his work and support him as I can.  The coolest thing is that RDFa is now a part of Drupal7 core - which makes Drupal that much more competitive in the market at large as it takes its first steps into the next generation of the web. 

In the meantime, I attended Dries Buytaert's talk at MIT last night with all the Drupalgangers in the Boston area and a few who came from as far away as Montreal!  Granted, they were already in town on business - but was very happy to make new acquaintances.  Drupal is now the CMS of choice for the white house website - again, showing this is no small thing to be a part of!

In other news, Maya succeeded in staying home alone for 45 minutes without destroying anything.  That said, when I left her alone later that night for several hours - I came home to find one or two things chewed up and a tissue box in ruins.  Today, she was back to being crated.  Slowly but surely I hope she'll overcome her separation anxiety. 

Lisa was great company to me last night and this morning as we traded advice over crépes - I'm yet to improve my recent blog entries on patching.  We also made a visit to Charleston & Bunker Hill via bus.  My first time doing any type of sight-seeing in Boston! 

Its hard to keep inspired and motivated - but as Scarlett would say, Tomorrow is another day!

Highlights c/o Flickr