There’s a giant green and yellow swath of ick rolling over Georgia on the animated radar right now, so there’s really no point in trying to wait it out before donning cheap rain gear and riding through the slop on a bike not built for weather. Giddyup.

Then after a few productive hours in the lab where I seem to have a biaxial extensometer finally up and running, it’s off to another conference — this one, luckily, just around the corner and not up in Kennesaw.

cj_logo2.gifThis event is a first-of-its-kind meeting to bring together up-and-coming journalists, established news-hounds, acclaimed academics, technology and media executives, Internet influencers and many others to discuss how new computing technologies will shape and reshape the news business for generations to come.

I know you’re jealous.