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We must be getting close. I can almost taste it. Is it time to say au revoir, to IE6?

It’s been a crazy and hard few weeks. Between work, film projects, family coming into town (and crashing on our floor) and the passing of my Grandmother, my mentor and my closest friend, I’ve hardly been keeping my head above water. But this week ushers in an event we have all been looking forward to all year. Yes, it’s that time again. An Event Apart 2008, sails in to San Francisco Monday.

This years line up is chalked full of interesting topics and top notch speakers. In particular, I’m looking forward to Better User Experience Through Microformats, by Tantek Çelik, who is one of the founders of microformats.org. Tantek will discuss “proper use of microformats (in addition to those Elements of Meaningful HTML that you know by heart) [and how this] can improve the usability of several common interactive design scenarios.”

In addition, there is an entire arsenal of compelling sessions, including presentations by Luke Wroblewski, Jeff Veen and Kelly Goto.

I look forward to seeing everyone there.

It’s not too late, you can still get tickets.

There are times when you wish there was a clean, elegant way to go about a thing and there are times, as we all know, when this just isn’t possible. Such, is my state of mind at present. We all know what it’s like to take something that is beautiful and clean, and have to bend and contort it to work in environments it really shouldn’t be subjected to. Such is the peril of the web designer and developer. And such is the profound necessity of standards.

In times like this, I can’t help but wish we, as designers and developers, had something for our practice, akin to the good old tennis ball hack.

Without a doubt, I’m ranting about Internet Explorer. I know, it’s a tiresome subject, but we, nevertheless, exhaust countless, valuable hours contending with the legacy Microsoft left behind.

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