The San Francisco Citizen

As promised, there was a huge turnout for WordCamp from Wordpress last Saturday. Check out an insanely detailed account here and some nice photos from Adam Tow here.

Perhaps the best part of WordCamp is the Apple-inspired Genius Bar, where everybody knows your name.

Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.

Wouldn’t you like to get away?

Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name,
and they’re always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.

This is what it looked like on Saturday when San Francisco held a dress rehearsal for disaster in the Financial District. Hundreds of people were on the scene. They came from an alphabet soup of local, state, and federal agencies, such as SFFD, SFPD, FEMA, FBI, the Army, etc.

KGO-TV has some video.

A decontamination tent near the 555 California building. Click to expand

2008’s Golden Gate Renaissance Faire was the place to be this past weekend in San Francisco. These shots from the jousting in 2007 show we were a little luckier with the weather last year, but there was a good turnout this go around as well.  

David Yu has a few shots here and they’re more coming in over the Flickr.

Except for the modern chain link fence and the ATM machine by the entrance, this is a pretty credible attempt to show what life was like back in the day.

Hang up the cell phone, it’s time for a “flower circle” ceremony:

Jousting practice:

A new horse this year:

See you next year.

All the meadow’s indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each anothers audience
Outside the gilded cage