MXDU hasn’t even offi­cially started and already I’m exhausted… here’s some high­lights from the National Macro­me­dia User Group Meeting:

1. Wak­ing up at 4am to make my 6am (4 hour) flight to Syd­ney. Tech­ni­cally actu­ally it was about 3:50am as my alarm clock is set fast. Or was that a lowlight?
2. The kebab I had for lunch, from the Turk­ish shop on the cor­ner of Mur­ray St and Pyr­mont St, Dar­ling Har­bour… mmm…
3. Russ Weak­ley, Max Design: “Prac­ti­cal ben­e­fits of web stan­dards for your vis­i­tors, your clients and you”. This is my favourite topic of late, and as I’ve been lurk­ing on the Web Stan­dards Group mail­ing list for a few weeks now it was nice to put a name to a face. Russ reck­ons that there’s a few Perth peo­ple on the list now, maybe even enough to have real meet­ings, which would be cool.
4. Sean Cor­field, Direc­tor of Archi­tec­ture in IT at Macro­me­dia: “Acces­si­ble and Com­pli­ant — a brief look at acces­si­bil­ity and web stan­dards com­pli­ance at macromedia.com”. An inter­est­ing topic, and reas­sur­ing to know that even the big guys aren’t per­fect although they are try­ing. Again, it was nice to meet Sean in per­son finally.
5. Panel: Ques­tion time. Russ, Sean, Mike Cham­bers and Tim Bun­tel being asked the awk­ward ques­tions. And I won a(nother) macro­me­dia t-shirt for has­sling Tim about how Flex will fit into the sub-enterprise-level organ­i­sa­tion (appar­ently it might), cool.
6. The MXDU con­fer­ence bags are WICKED! I’ll post a photo tomor­row when I’m not so knackered.

Day 1, bring it on!