So, here I am, working at the office, and we’re all sending instant messages across the room instead of actually talking to each other. Real geeks, huh? Maybe, but I think the phenomenon may have as much to do with maintaining productivity-enhancing silence in an open-concept office.
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I’m attending a tech startup conference in Quebec City Friday and Saturday this week. The event is presented in partnership with the new Canadian affiliate of Garage Technology Ventures, whose managing director, Guy Kawasaki, will be making a presentation. His book, The Art of the Start, was one of the more important things I read in the last couple of years, in terms of thought-provoking advice to would-be entrepreneurs and “anyone starting anything.”
Seeing Kawasaki in person, however interesting it may be, is not my sole motivation for attending however. When I was in Silicon Valley earlier this month, I was approached by a group of engineers and technologists. I agreed to collaborate with them on a very exciting venture about which I will have to be vague for the time being. My responsibility is brand development. So here I am, hoping to learn from the presentations and make some connections that will be useful later on down the road…
NOTE: You can download the first chapter of the Art of the Start for free here.
I’ve been fooling around with a few different WP layout themes. I really like the design of Blix. I also like the airy feel of Gentle Calm which you can see in action at Alex King’s Theme Browser.
But the winner so far is K2. I haven’t done more than pop the hood for a quick peek at the mechanics, but it seems to have a lot going for it: powerful, sleek, and feature-rich. And it can only get better because it’s still in beta.
Most of all, it’s designed for WP 2.0 so my mileage should be good. I haven’t run across any other themes that claim that, but it’s still relatively early in the game, I guess.
That said, I’m sure I’ll end up tweaking the look of the standard interface as I work my way up the PHP/CSS learning curve that is beginning to look like K2’s namesake.