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Although I’ve been down with a nasty flu all this week, I dragged myself over to WonderCon in SF to see Joss Whedon, creator of Firefly / Serenity; to see the cast, Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin and Summer Glau; and to visit with fellow Browncoats.

The experience was amazing! Everyone was so personable and friendly. At the autograph area, Nathan remarked that his wore similar glasses to mine. And, I managed to comment on his flower-patterned shirt. Adam showed off his Firefly Stunt Team t-shirt with great glee. Summer was quite cordial and pleasant. And Joss, an awesome guy! Poor Joss had a cold too, but still took time to sign my poster and compliment on my Willow and Tara drawing. (“Gorgeous!” he said. :-)

The Browncoats are definitely the best fans ever! You can easily pick out Browncoats from the rest of the crowd, they’re always friendly and make you feel welcome, what a great gang. When I have more time, I’ll definitely help out, it’s too bad that my busy schedule and my cold prevented me from staying late and going to the after party Shindig.

You can see photos from the event in the BD photo gallery.

I went to Macworld San Francisco 2005 today, and saw several really cool new things, including the iPod Shuffle, the Mac Mini, iWork ’05 and iLife ’05. I also bumped into Phil Schiller, VP of Product Marketing at Apple. Here are some photos from the exhibition floor, but you can see the rest in the Macworld 2005 photo gallery.

In the US, when people ask me what I do, and I tell them, it often doesn’t impress upon them how people in other parts of the world use mobile phones in a completely different way. For about a year now, I’ve had the privilege of building the graphics and UI in one of the web browsers and messaging clients in Vodafone’s new Live! 3G service. Recently, Vodafone Live! 3G launched in Europe, and here are their launch adverts: Vodafone Live! Powered by 3G Adverts. (‘Mimic’ is one of my favorites)

I’ve also helped build other stuff for some of the world’s largest carrier services, Here’s a partial list:

• KDDI au / WAP2001 / EZweb
• Vodafone Live!
• NTT DoCoMo – i-mode Europe
• J-Phone JSky
• Sprint PCS Vision
• Orange 3G

So when you see Hello Kitty animating on one of those services, there’s a fair chance that I helped build that. Nifty :-).