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<title>Balisage 2010</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2010/07/27/balisage2010</biblioid>
<volumenum>13</volumenum>
<issuenum>26</issuenum>
<pubdate>2010-07-27T16:43:52-04:00</pubdate>
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      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
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<copyright>
      <year>2010</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
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<para>Balisage 2010 is only days away. (How did that happen?)</para>
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<para xml:id="p1">I guess my writing hiatus was longer than I realized
or expected. It occurs to me that I've done no where near enough to
pimp my favorite conference:
<link xlink:href="http://www.balisage.net/">Balisage: The Markup Conference</link>
which is happening in Montréal next week.</para>

<para xml:id="p2">If you care about structured markup in general (or
XML in particular), and you're not planning to go, and it's not too
late to change your mind, I encourage you to do so. Change your mind
that is, and go.</para>

<para xml:id="p3">For my part, for the first time ever, I'm only attending. No
slides to prepare, no paper to finish. It feels really weird (and not
entirely good, I regret not being able to pull together even a
proposal this year.) For my sins, I hope to pull together
<link xlink:href="http://balisage.net/posters.html">a poster</link>.
The conference has a history of informative and entertaining posters.
If you're coming, make one!</para>

<para xml:id="p4">I will be
<link xlink:href="http://balisage.net/2010/DemoJam.html">hosting Demo Jam</link>
again this year, so I'm not getting off scott free. But the beer is free,
so that's ok :-)</para>

<para xml:id="p5">See you there!</para>

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