I just finished my talk at Web Directions North in Denver, Colorado about web application security:

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There’ll also be a video of the talk available in due time :)

Things that made me happy this morning

• Arriving in Denver in time to deliver my talk at WDN - only 7 hours in the lounge made it possible
• New York Lego bricks I love the pepper mill
• Accessify offers an easy youtube caption creator and asks for feedback
• The Opera Web Standards Curriculum now has a JavaScript section – yeah I’ll finish the missing article soon
• An interesting blog post on how to blog when you got nothing to talk about

Things that made me happy this morning:

• Getting a new flight booking to Web Directions North after all flights had been canceled yesterday
• Knowing that we are safe as there are Real Super Heroes amongst us – I think the most useful is red arrow although pointing at your crotch is not decent – then again this is what ties do.
• WaSP reporting on the findings or WebAim Screen Reader Survey
• An interesting video of John Resig explaining just how broken DOM support in browsers really is on the YDN theater.
• Obviously having done a great job styling TweetEffect – why else would the newer TweetActive looks ever so slightly similar?
• Some good info by the lovely (Mother) Henny of Opera on Nintendo Wii as a rehab device
• An archive of all the vanity cards at the end of The Big Bang Theory episodes

I believe that inherent within the God-given right to the pursuit of happiness, is the equally God-given right to the pursuit of unhappiness. That is why I support gay marriage.

I am right now rather devastated that I will miss (at least) the first day of the Web Directions North conference as London is simply shut down for the day.

I arrived yesterday from India and got back in time to fly out to Denver from the shiny Terminal 5. I was amazed that I was not jetlagged at all and that I could keep my large suitcase in storage at the airport. What I wasn’t planning for was the snow that crippled London down to a halt. A single snow flake in London is cause for gasps and concerns, this amount however really had the city by the proverbial balls: one tube line was running without any delays, no buses were running, the roads were blocked by cars trying to go uphill in first gear when there’s a slippery road, none of the trains were running and then of course (when I arrived in time) the whole airport got shot down.

Funnily enough the web was no help either: the Transport for London web site was down, checking in at the BA.com web site was impossible and my favourite was the helpline telling you afterwards that they are overworked and you should use the web site instead…

Anyways, maybe the idea of online conferences with video presentations is really the future as a lot of aggravation can be avoided.

I will try again tomorrow to get to the airport in time to get to WDN, as it’d be such a waste not to be able to go and meet all those lovely people.

Things that made me happy this morning

• not being too jetlagged (in India at the moment)
• LaidOffCamp a barcamp for people in the IT business having been laid off lately helping each other – cool idea!
• A new group discussing what server side JavaScript should have promises some good collaboration of clever people for consistent APIs. Kevin Dangoor has the inside scoop
• Delivering a hacking 101 talk at the University in Delhi
• Getting my flight to Atlanta, Georgia in March £1300 cheaper by flying one day later!
• Calming down a very ticked off lady who accused me of publishing her protected Tweets via TweetEffect – I do not, they are only available to her and her friends. That is how Twitter rolls.