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Barry Bonds gave a long, sweet look to the home run that brought him within one of tying Hank Aaron’s all-time record.Bonds’ first-inning home run off Florida’s Rick Vanden Hurk, the 754th of his career, sailed over the 404-foot mark in center field at AT&T Park, clearing the wall as Bonds started his trot around the bases.

Facing Vanden Hurk for the first time in his career, Bonds connected on a 2-1 fastball, stood at home plate to admire it and later doffed his cap to the crowd that gave Bonds a rousing ovation as he stood on the doorstep of history.

The home run was Bonds’ first in more than a week, ending the frustration that had grown as he managed only a double and two singles in the meantime.

Before the game, San Francisco Giants owner Peter Magowan talked about the effect Bonds has had on the last-place team and the mounting disillusionment over the attention the home-run chase draws.

“I think,” Magowan said, “we’ll start winning more consistently once this is behind us.”

It will take just one more swing of the bat.

Today I recorded Apple Universe #25 and I really enjoyed it! It has been released and edited with new theme music and promos. Listen in and download the new episode!

Hello listeners. I might record Apple Universe #25 today and #26 on the weekend. I don;t know for sure, but expect an episode this weekend!

Thanks to Jason Whitener from the MacBook Podcast who recommended me to Daphne Kalfon, I have a new theme song for Apple Universe! The new theme song will be played at the next Apple Universe, Episode #25! Thanks Jason!

The whole day started like Saturday, Registration and Coffee! But than SESSION 1: HIGH PERFORMANCE WORDPRESS BY BARRY ABRAHAMSON AND MATT MULLENWEG started and it was amazing!

All the stats and numbers and my SQL and phpDev! It was so cool! And after lunch Rashmi, from SlideShare.net talked about Designing Massively Multiplayer Social Systems!

But than the good stuff happened! BBQ LUNCH! It was delicious! I also recorded my podcast with special guests Chalres Stricklin and Patrick Havens! After Lunch, Andy Skelton, a developer from WP.com, got out a guitar and played a couple of tunes and I recorded them!

 

Than Dave Winer got up on the stage and gave us a little history lesson before starting to talk about the Past, Present and Future of Web-Publishing! How he got started with blogging. The first blog was actually Tim Berners-Lee’s the very first website at http://info.cern.com. He was working on a project for Wired, A day of democracy, and he was chronologically posting information. And he liked the idea, and thought he should return to that.

Than Liz Danzico of Happy Cog got up and talked about Usability Analysis of WP! Very intresting, but I left half way becuase my dad had to pick me up!

Of course I missed the State of the Word, and Developer Duke-Out! But that is ok, I will watch on video! Overal, I had a fantastic time at Word Camp 2007!

Featuring: Michael Adams, Ryan Boren, Mark Jaquith, Andy Skelton, et al! I don’t know much, but Lorna will hook me up!

I don’t know much about this, because I left when it just started! I will give you some notes from Lorna!

We all have ideas about the design and usability of WordPress, but what about when actual testing gets applied to the problem.

Liz has been working extensively on the information architecture and usability of WordPress as part of the inimitable Happy Cog, and here she will share what she has learned and where we need to go.

Session Leader: Liz Danzico

WordPress blog: Bobulate

Liz, pictured on left, is part information architect, part usability analyst, and part editor. As an independent information architecture consultant, she traces the roots of her craft back to her parents. According to Liz, “Growing up at least a little information architect in Northeastern Pennsylvania gave me an organizational advantage over my friends.”