Getting (dis)organized for SxSWi in Austin

SxSWi looks to be quite the PathCross: The microformats panel on Monday is what put the conference on my radar this year, but it's just one of dozens of panels that I really want to see. It's overwhelming. Of course, that's part of the appeal of the Austin/SXSW scene: creative chaos. As a student, my creed was "never plan more than 15 minutes ahead." Life was much simpler, in many ways, back then.

Other stuff I'm looking forward to:

• Saturday: Matt May's invitation to a social event looks interesting.
• Sunday: Flickr, Upcoming.org, and Del.icio.us in the company of Yahoo!. I RSVP'd, but so did 390 other people. If the Iron Cactus were big enough to fit all of us, I: think I would remember it. Oh... hmm... it seems to be on 6th street; the names on the clubs there rotate with the seasons; some of them big enough, if we don't all show up at once.
• Tuesday: Kevin Lawver: How to Convince Your Company to Embrace [Web] Standards
• MattB will be there

I'm driving down with Mary and the boys, stopping to visit folks here and there.

And on Tuesday night, my itinerary takes me to New York for the W3C workshop on usability and authorization.