I’ve been so busy read­ing other people’s accounts of WE05 that I’ve only started writ­ing up my own now. I’m going to start with one of the speak­ers who really got me enthused to get out there and start imple­ment­ing the ideas he was talk­ing about — Tan­tek Çelik.

Appro­pri­ate actu­ally, because I wore my new Tech­no­rati t-shirt to work today. Pic­ture it now:

Coworker: cool t-shirt, where’d you get it?
Me (casu­ally): Oh, we were at the pub dis­cussing Amer­i­can pol­i­tics on Fri­day and Tan­tek gave it to me.

Heh heh. Name drop­ping aside, Tan­tek and his girl­friend DJ Amber are really nice peo­ple and very inter­est­ing to chat with, as sev­eral of us Perthites found out. The ques­tion time at the end of Tantek’s first day ses­sion was cut short by an (extensively-blogged) evac­u­a­tion, just before I was cer­tain some­one was going to ask his opin­ion on the XHTML mime­type serv­ing issue. The sec­ond day break­fast with Tan­tek was inter­est­ing for me, as one of the few non-Apple tot­ing WE05 atten­dees (I love my TabletPC, as doc­u­mented else­where) — it was refresh­ing to hear a bal­anced view on both Apple and Microsoft as com­pa­nies. But Tantek’s ses­sion on the sec­ond day on micro­for­mats was really moti­vat­ing and one of my WE05 high­lights — I was sit­ting next to Adrian and Miles from Port80 and we could almost see the wheels turn­ing in each other’s heads dur­ing demon­stra­tions on the hCal­en­dar, hCon­tact and hRe­view micro­for­mats. Look for them on the Port80 site some­time soon!

So any­way, down­load the pod­casts and be pre­pared to be inspired. You won’t be disappointed.

Tech­no­rati: WE05