Well I’ve just finished the first revision of the new official site of WOMAD (World of Music, Arts & Dance) who organise festivals, events and educational projects around the world, you can find the new site at http://www.womad.org.

Overall I’m quite pleased with it so far. There are still a few bugs, features to add, and performance optimisations to be done, but all in all it’s a massive improvement over the old site and provides a much better structure in terms of design and code to be able to build upon in the future.

As usual any and all comments are very welcome, good bad or indifferent.

Well I just got back from San Francisco yesterday. I planned to post to my blog everyday I was there, but unfortunately (or fortunately) I just had too much to do, and was enjoying myself far too much. I took far too few photographs, read not half of what I took with me, and didn’t shoot any video despite taking my video camera. Now I know this sounds bad, but I had lots of things to go to at WWDC in the day, and far too much to see of S.F. at night.

As luck would have it, the weekend before the conference was Pride 2004. It finished on the Sunday evening with 13 stages of entertainment. I had a really good time, and I think I must have walked 10 miles worth over the Sunday. I met some nice people, almost everyone seems friendly in San Francisco.

I’m sure I’ll post more about the trip, but for now I’ll just say that as nice as it is to be home, it was very nice to be in San Francisco too.