Friday 26 October 2007

Train the Trainer Swag Prep

Ooh, yummy stuff for the Train the Trainer Swag bag courtesy Microsoft, Peachpit Press, O’Reilly Publishing, and Lynda.Com.

Juicy stuff includes:

• One copy CSS Cookbook by Christopher Schmitt
• One copy Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke, edited and with a foreword by me, and an introduction by Dave Shea
• One copy Expression Web software
• An IE7 water bottle (perfect for warm sunny Tucson weather)
• One copy of CSS for Designers from Lynda.Com

Swag is set, shopping’s been done, the refreshments for this evening’s opening mixer are chillin’ and short of some general cleaning, the first official Train the Trainer event is about to kick off!

Filed under:   professional, standards, software, web design and development, giveaways and fun, w3c, conferences, creativity, browsers, microsoft, ie7, accessibility
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Friday 6 July 2007

Nerd Word Fun & Games

Michael sent me an email that immediately cheered me up over being stuck in the UK an extra day due to a broken plane. In it, he writes:

“MySpace is to HTML as Barry Gibb is to Beck”

Now I don’t know if I’m just desperate for a laugh at the moment or if my incessant giggling proves this to be truly funny. Since I expect not to have the time or motivation to write anything serious for a few days as I journey from this rainy island to the searing desert, I thought we might have some fun along this theme.

Write a short, pithy, nerdy saying, and don’t hold back! The only “rule” as it were is that the topic has to relate to nerdy concepts and words.

Top three faves will win a book, which I anticipate being able to give more away of now that I’m returning home for a while.

Your turn!

Filed under:   humor, pop culture, giveaways and fun, creativity
Posted by:   Molly | 6:30 pm | Comments (39)

Saturday 12 August 2006

Best Schwag Ever

I’ve been organizing things around the house and office and ran across some great schwag I’ve picked up over the years. Among the expected t-shirts, cheap pens and oft-nice conference bags, I found a sturdy, wirebound, hardcover notebook and a silver fine point refillable cartridge pen. Ooh, great schwag, especially this pen, which is one of those pens that you start out writing with then find yourself doodling, then drawing because it’s just that cool a pen.

This schwag courtesy of Macromedia Government. I guess at one time Macromedia must have been doing some educational outreach to one of my government clients because I can’t for the life of me remember where I got this! But I’m sure glad I found it in the schwag pile, and seeing the old Macromedia logo put a smile on my face for sure.

Tell me your schwag stories! Worst schwag, funny schwag, but especially the best schwag. My favorite top three schwag stories as of the weekend’s close my time will win the author either some schwag, or a book (you’ll get a choice) from the Molly archives here.

Filed under:   professional, humor, giveaways and fun
Posted by:   Molly | 3:10 am | Comments (32)