Richard Dawkins has a new blog post on HuffPo.

Reading his stuff always makes me feel sane.

C4[0] is over and I had a great time. I’m glad I was able to attend, but the cold I’ve been keeping at bay through sheer force of will has decided it’s had enough of that and has descended on me like a ton of bricks.

I was going to do a summary of the presentations but Daniel Jalkut did a much better job than my mucus addled brain is capable of here. The sessions were very cool, but the conversations I had with the people I met really made the event worthwhile.

James Duncan Davidson has posted a flickr set of photos from the event here. John Gruber posted a set as well. If you recognize any of the un-attributed attendees please out them with a flickr comment.

Now this is completely secret, and if I tell you, it mustn’t leave this room:

I spoke to Wolf about his vision for the future of the conference and he confided to me his plans to grow C4 to be a gigantic replacement for WWDC. It would be identical in every way except that all of the Apple Engineers would be replaced by extremely lifelike marionettes. Wolf would control them all from an an elaborate scaffolding suspended high above the Moscone center by blimps…

OK, that really didn’t happen. All I do know, is that when the invitations go out for next years C4, I’ll be signing up right away.

C4 – Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch’s new developer conference in Chicago, October 20 & 21, looks like it’s going to be very good. I sent my box tops right away though not without some anxiety.

See, it turns out that the Chicago Marathon takes place on that weekend and every (I mean every) reasonably priced room in the downtown core is booked. It finally came down to a hotel out in the boonies or spending way more than I wanted to downtown.

Downtown won (my wallet lost).

Anyway, It should be a whole bunch of fun, I’m looking forward to it.

Oh, talking about "interesting", keep an eye on the tacow website. Our October meeting is shaping up to be very cool.

"Well, the good news is you’re not in pain."

I had my appointment with the orthopedic surgeon on Friday, and that is what he had to say after looking at my X-rays. It turns out that after 7 weeks there is no sign my clavicle has healed at all.

I’ve been instructed to stop wearing the sling (yay!) and to start doing some stretching exercises (ouch!) but I’m not allowed to use any weights. I’ve got another appointment in 5 weeks to assess my progress.

Basically, the bone may never mend, the fragments may just be too far apart for that to happen. I just have to wait and see if it causes me pain or not. If it does, the only option is to operate and remove the fractured end of the bone.

Quit frankly, I’m bummed. This was not what I was expecting at all. The prospect of having to treat my arm with kid gloves for another 5 weeks, followed by the possibility of having to undergo surgery and another 6 weeks in a sling is not attractive in the least.

Sigh. Well, at least I can type with two hands for a while.