I’m sitting in the lower floor of our hotel (the Hyatt) leeching off the free Internet Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) set up for the competitive events. It’s wonderful to be back, my friends 
I competed yesterday and today. I’ve been told that I’m in the top 15, my second presentation I did today will determine my ranking within the top 15. I really hope I make it to the top 10. I worked and tried really hard and I would be really disappointed if I didn’t make it that far. The sad thing is, within the web design/development community there are different things that matter. Some are all about accessibility and web standards while some are all about aesthetics. I know there are a group here who have a Flash-driven Web site and of course this isn’t very accessible to those with screenreaders, for instance. I heard from several people that the audience seemed very impressed with that - and I’m sure it looked cool, but then again you have to think about your visitors that have dial up and/or are disabled so that they don’t have the ability to experience the Web in the conventional way. On any corporate Web site this definitely needs to be considered. After all, nobody wants to end up like Target. Anyways, I’ll find out Sunday night.
I’ve been busy running around the city of Chicago and having a pretty fantastic time. I’ve seen all kinds of awesome things (photos have been posted on Facebook, still more to come.)
I’ll see if I can be on the Internet tonight, but who knows, this hotel and its happenings are pretty unpredictable.
