Todd Lambert - Web Designer and Web Development » edition 7

An Event Apart – Atlanta 2006

Todd Lambert — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:01:33 +0000

So I arrive in Atlanta the day before the event, get my rental car and decide to do some sight-seeing before it gets dark. Not having a map, or even the slightest clue about where I am or how to get around Atlanta, I set off from from the Avis depot with nothing but adventure and determination on my mind. That is until I quickly find myself roaming the back streets of downtown slumville USA. Seedy people eye-ballin’ me left and right, wondering if I have anything of value in my silver, Chevy Malibu with a big Avis rental car sticker on the back.

I start to feel that I am in fear for my life as I begin to drive faster and faster in what appears to be one big circle because all the streets, buildings and people appear to be identical. Then I find the Olympic Village area, a left-over attraction from the Olympic Games held here several years ago and find that things start to seem more normal. Normal that is until I notice that I am the only one looking at the sights, everyone else is looking for one-night stands, to score crack, or some other form of a “good time”. I however am looking for my hotel.

After several hours of driving around the great town of Atlanta, I arrive at my Hotel and my sanity. I posted some of the photos I took while driving around, to illustrate the variety of life I found during my stay here. It is a neat place, very big yet still retains a feel of the smaller southern charm I have become accustomed to.

All in all, I had a blast, enjoying the city almost as much as I enjoyed the An Event Apart conference and the meeting of Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer and Jason Santa Maria.

New layout new format same site

Todd Lambert — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:47:49 +0000

As you see, I’ve revised the site yet again, and changed up the format this time. Everything is now going to be grouped into “slices” of time, rather than just individual posts. My hope is that this method will allow me to have more pertinent posts and will also buy me a little time to put together content that is better overall rather than just daily diatribes of what I had for lunch, how traffic was today, etc… Stay tuned, we’ll see how it goes.

Hurricane season coming soon

Todd Lambert — Tue, 03 May 2005 09:57:00 +0000

We’re getting ready for another (the first since Katrina) hurricane season on the Gulf Coast. Personally I think it’s going to be a tame season, I hope. I really really hope. We do not need anything remotely resembling a tropical storm, let alone a hurricane, to come anywhere near us. We are not ready yet (will we ever be?).