- Yesterday I spoke at BusinessWeek and was interviewed for a podcast that airs next week.
- Tomorrow I will speak for Carson at Future of Web Design.
- I will not be nicely dressed.
- That is because the fancy drycleaner—the best in town—has not yet returned the sharp clothes I wore at An Event Apart San Francisco.
- Don’t get me wrong. I do have another dress shirt.
- But I wore it to BusinessWeek yesterday. Hence, nothing “tailored” that is also clean.
- Which means nothing tailored for my meeting today with a client whose business and premises are somewhat traditional.
- All because my drycleaner takes longer to clean my dress shirts than my company takes to design a website.
- Almost.
- I would switch, but the other drycleaners in my neighborhood tend to shrink my shirts and then deny responsibility for the damage.
- So. What to wear.
- I might go for the Steve Jobs look.
- Or I might go for the “Zeldman” look.
- Which, admittedly, is not much of a business look.
- But I got into this business so I would not have to dress up. That was kind of the point. Learn HTML, and work in your underwear.
- Now that I actually have to dress for clients and the public, I have, in the words of Imelda Marcos, nothing to wear.
- Although Imelda was talking about shoes and my problem is shirts.
- I could buy a new shirt.
- If I didn’t have to work today.
- Why, yes, I have been using Twitter. Why do you ask?
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