Video on the Net Conference
If you or I were cool we’d be at the “Video on the Net” conference right now. Maybe Steve Garfield will give us an update of highlights.
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waste my *potentially* last day on earth at a confrence, NEVER!
Fair point. I wonder what time zone holds the deadline. I want to make sure i’m asleep.
Must be the Marshall, Texas time zone. The world ended here decades ago.
Nobody gave us highlights. Maybe nobody went.