I just got in from bringing my parents to the airport. They’re going to France for the week and were leaving from Boston. It sounds like they’ve got quite an amazing trip planned. As a result though, I’ve been busy most of the day. But now that I’m finally home I’ll have a chance to catch up on reading news and blogs and maybe make a post or two.

I decided to head home after lunch instead of heading back to BloggerCon. My parents are coming up tomorrow and I’m taking them to the airport so I need to get my car cleaned out a little bit more and take care of some things that I won’t have time to tomorrow. If people are doing any kind of dinner tonight I may try and head out to something.

I’ve also started writing up some thoughts that may or may not become an actual essay about BloggerCon and some of the stuff I observed there. Overall I think it was a worthwhile weekend, but there were parts of it that for me were a little bit weak. Though this was also the first event like this, so some of that is to be expected.

I crawled out of bed this morning with just enough time to swing by Dunkin Donuts for a large coffee and to make it to Halley’s Session. The session was really great, though the part of it that I found really interesting was the whole issue of how much control your employer should have over what you do in private.

Currently I’m in Jon Udell’s session on aggregators. It’s pretty interesting. Lots of good ideas. I may publish some of my notes on it later. And right now we’re talking on IRC about where to get lunch.

William James: “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” [Quotes of the Day]

I’ll have more to post later, but I mostly enjoyed things. There were some slow bits in the middle, but it was an interesting look into how other people use blogs. Big thanks to Heath for carrying my laptop bag back to the car, it was an immense help. Also, check out his blog for some good transcripts from today. I’ll be back after the dinner I’m going to (mmm Dali), hopefully with some more pictures.

From CNN:

President Bush pens a poem

WASHINGTON (AP) — Laura Bush says her husband is a poet even if, uh, Americans don’t know it. [CNN]