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We stopped by Madison yesterday, and what visit to Madison would be complete without seeing old pals…

First of all, traffic was crazy. Like Madison crazy times two! We figured it was all the students, but Taste of Madison was also going on, so parking was nuts, and walking took careful steps.

I just had to go to Ear Wax, which is run by Dave Barber from Inspector 12. Ear Wax is for lovers of the punk rock and metal music. If you love that stuff, check it out. (They also have a store in “Westallica” aka West Allis.) It was good to see Dave and catch up and what he (and others) have been up to.

After that, it was on to see the other Inspector 12 guy, Brian Jansen who co-own Capitol City Tattoo. I saw Brian last year so there wasn’t quite as much to catch up on, but we did get to talk about the shop, look through some books, and he told me about this guy who got a tattoo of Tigger chopping off Winnie the Pooh’s head with an axe… on his butt…

Madison is my favorite city to visit in Wisconsin. I think if I didn’t live where I do now, I’d consider Madison as my home…

Is there a term for the process that takes place when you create valid, semantic XHTML code for a client, then hand it off to them, and by the time it goes live, it’s a completely invalid and non-semantic mess?

Because there should be. So for now, I will call it “The Unvalidization!”

Do you have a better idea?

Do you hit Gizmodo on an hourly basis? Subscribe to Engadget‘s feed? Feel envious of Phil Torrone on a daily basis?

If you’re into gadgets, bring them to the Share Your Gadgets session at BarCampMilwaukee.

Did you know you can use a kid’s toy as an MP3 player and photo viewer? You can… Got a cell phone that you think kicks ass? Bring it.

We’ll talk about the gadgets of today, and the gadgets of tomorrow… What’s good, what’s bad, the UI, the battery life, etc…

Besides cell phones, people have digital cameras, media players, PDAs, GPS receivers and on and on… What will you bring?

So I thought, what can I do for a BarCamp session that would definitely overload my plate… A Mash Pit!

At BarCampMilwaukee, we will have a session on what a mashup is, just going over the basics, showing some examples, talking about APIs, and brainstorming ideas, but for those who aren’t into sleep, we’ll start at 11 PM and see what we can crank out before the sun rises.

We are prefixing with “Mini” because it may only be a few hours or so, depending on whatever else is going on at BarCampMilwaukee. I’m still hoping a bunch of code monkeys I’ve emailed plan to come, because while just me sitting at a table doing this alone would still be very cool, and result in some killer app, I’m sure I could use the input and assistance of others… :)