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How’s that for an open­ing sen­tence? It’s from the Web Essen­tials 04 con­fer­ence, announced on the Web Stan­dards Group mail­ing list yes­ter­day. Yes folks, Dave Shea, Dou­glas Bow­man and Joe Clark, at the same time, in Aus­tralia. That could be the best news I’ve heard all year.

The bad part? I have a snowball’s chance in hell of attend­ing, even though it’s in my own coun­try. I’ve already been to mxdu this year, and who’s stu­pid idea was it to build a house anyway?

Stu­pid house.