2 posts tagged “menatrott”
My entry into the Color Mena contest. I decided to go with some nice Miami Vice (the original television series) colors.
Cinnamon and I went to the preview party/presentation for Vox here in Chicago. It was at the MCA, and a serious storm followed our train downtown from the north, so we ended up soaked as we walked inside.
It was quite the meet and greet: folks from Feedburner (who helped organize the event), Time Out Chicago, Chicagoist, Gapers Block (of course), the Tribune, Ron May...
After a couple of rather strong drinks (blue martinis, all booze) we listened as Mena gave a brief overview of the service and answered some questions from the crowd. I'm excited to see the planned integration tools 6A has in the works, and was intrigued by Vox's ability to set permissions on each portion of a post -- I could make these photos only viewable to friends if I wanted. It'd be great if you could also set permissions on blocks of text within a post, so I could make asides to friends inline.
(I was also excited to hear they're adding a Chicago skyline blog template.)
Talked a bit with Scott and Mena afterward. We're reaching the limit of what we can do with MT for Gapers Block -- it groans at every rebuild and regularly throws up server errors when we post to Merge, which contains several thousand posts. We've been talking casually about building a custom CMS in Django to fix some of those issues. Mena mentioned that they released an MT update last week that may address some of those issues, and I asked her and Scott to keep us in mind for any beta testing of future versions. We'll see.
The great thing is I haven't spoken with Mena since SXSW three years ago, and before that only when she and Ben came here for a presentation at Seabury before they even had funding, yet she still remembered who I was and what I did. She remembered Cinnamon on sight, and told her she still loved the bag she made for her (and chastized her for not saying hi at southby this year). It takes an incredible mind to remember details about people years later, and it seems to be a talent that politicians and CEOs share. It's part of their job, I guess. Still, I wish I had it: I can remember people I met once years prior -- I recognized Mimi Smartypants from the train despite having never actually met her -- but I sometimes can't remember the names of close friends.
