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Last week I got to go to my first Omniture Summit.  For those that don’t know, we use Omniture at work to measure everything about what people do on our site.  The summit is a gathering of all the vendors, clients and Omniture employees to figure out what is going on in the web analytics world and what the trends in the industry are.  Yeah, it sounds pretty nerdy, but it’s what I do!  I gotta say, I enjoyed being immersed in learning and thinking about the different ways real companies are out there solving problems – and how we can do it better.  On top of all that I won a business card drawing from one of the sessions (more on that one later).

As you can imagine, the conference costs a decent amount of money, which allows them to bring in great speakers, and entertainment for the week.  This year, the big speakers were John Battelle, marketing guru Seth Godin, and The Killers!  They were awesome.  I hope to go again next year.  But enough of that talk – I just wanted to share a few pictures that I took…

Omniture Summit on Flickr

Seth Godin speaking at Omniture Summit 2010

View of the mountains from my hotel room

I woke up to this in the morning!

Killers playing at The Rail in SLC

I am officially an Uncle!  My sister had Ella Violet on February 8th, 2010.  I got to hold her when she was only a few hours old.  I am excited to have a niece and see her grow over the years.  My Dad also asked that I grab a Washington Post paper from the office to remember what happened on the day she was born.  Front and center are two things I won’t forget about the current events – the snowstorm in DC and the Capitals beating the Penguins in an amazing overtime comeback.

Welcome Ella!

Ella Violet

The Washington Post - 2.8.10

Via Frontpages

Amanda and I just put up our 2nd Christmas tree.  (not much different than our first tree!)

I just read here that Jackie Chan is going to be starring in a remake of the 1984 classic The Karate Kid.  The Karate Kid was a huge part of my youth, influencing me to do karate chops and crane kicks all around the neighborhood.  According to IMDB, there are a few differences in the remake, some in the plot, but they’re also changing the name to “Kung Fu Kid”.  As much as I like Jackie Chan, I don’t think he possesses the same mysteriousness that made Mr. Myagi so awesome.

In related awesomeness, I met Pat Morita at a restaurant in Disney World back in the day.  He was awesome enough to sign a headshot for me…

Pat Morita, Mr. Myagi signed headshot

via WTOP & EW.