TMTOWTDI

I went along as a counselor-ish person on my school’s freshmen trip to Big Bend National Park! To go I had to write an essay that was reviewed by our Head of School. Seven seniors went on the 9th grade trip and two on the 10th grade trip.

Everyone–teachers, administrators, students, and seniors–had an amazing time. Although there was some excitement–a student was lifeflighted in stable condition after tripping on the sand dunes and being in intense pain for awhile because of a prior surgery that left a bar in his chest–everyone grew closer together and more comfortable around each other, while enjoying the outdoors, fulfilling some of the main goals of the trip.

• Pictures from the trip: adamfeldman.smugmug.com
• The tribute video slideshow: http://vimeo.com/2928146 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHQp7y73a38

The new WhiteHouse.gov is already live (broken links and all). Check out this big difference (via http://codeulate.com/?p=24):

Obama’s two line robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/

Bush’s robots.txt (too long to put here – 2324 lines).

In a way it says something about the two administrations commitment to transparency and openness.

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Tag clouds of various inaugural speeches (via ReadWriteWeb).

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Was Condi Rice the first African-American President today?? A Constitutional law scholar answers.

So here’s what’s happened so far:

• Flight from Houston to Denver on United to make our connection on Frontier to San Francisco took off 50 minutes late. Our connection time in Denver: 50 minutes! Michael & I sprinted through two terminals and somehow made it!! Our flight was supposed to take off at 5:55 and we boarded at 6:05 as they closed the door. We were sooooo happy and exhausted.
• Got into line for the keynote around 10:30pm. We were 11-13th in line. Chilled with a lot of awesome people (I’ll get links up to everyone’s site/twitter later). A few are below, more to be added later:
1. The Flappie guys from TastyApps came by with t-shirts, buttons, and stickers!
2. Met plenty of people such as a guy from TUAW, @adamjackson, @alexbrooks, @deedeewarren.
• Got our tent set up right on the sidewalk. Surprisingly no cops came by the whole night to tell us to take it down! Michael got 3-4 hours of sleep, I got two. It was freezing outside–I’m a Houstonian, I don’t like 40 degree weather!!
• Got into Moscone around 7:15-ish. It was waaarmmm inside! . Got seated around 8:50
• Nothing of note at the philnote. I impulsively bought iWork today, we’ll see how much I end up liking it!
• Visited some booths afterwards then napped for 4 hours

More Macworld news later!