Brandon Live!

Let’s hope Chris isn’t starting a trend.

Congratulations to Robert Scoble and Shel Israel on the launch of their new book, Naked Conversations.

I just got home from their fantastic launch party with my signed copy of the book in hand.  It was definitely an appropriate venue to launch this book considering the number of interesting connections and conversations that happened. 

Also Buzz Bruggeman and Maryam Scoble deserve major props for organizing tonight’s event.  And special thanks to our gracious hosts John and Alison Dillow for sharing their beautiful home with us all.

Update:  Robert has posted a round-up of party coverage.

Infoworld has published it’s 2005 GUI Awards - or awards for “Greed, Underhandedness, and Imbecility.”

Check it out here.

I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.  So far I haven’t seen any problems and the site actually feels faster.  The new admin features are great, although the new rich text editor for posting seems to lag behind my typing.  Hopefully I can do something about that.  In every other way the editor rocks.  And I can now add categories from the “Write Post” page.  Yay!

I also updated my permalink format.  Maybe now Google won’t ignore my site.

Let me know if you see any problems on the site as I’ve heard there could be a glitch or two as a result of the upgrade.

Update:  Looks like the performance issues in the WYSIWYG editor and the admin pages in general is related to Maxthon.  If I use a “normal” IE window I have no performance problems at all.  Looks like I’ve found a bug for the Maxthon guys to fix in their next release.