{"id":20,"date":"2006-03-05T15:53:41","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T21:53:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-14T16:34:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T21:34:50","slug":"spie-microlithography-conference-post-script-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"SPIE Microlithography Conference, Post Script #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blog maintained on a personal web page is, almost by definition, self-indulgent.  Benjamin Franklin once said, \u201cEither do things worth writing, or write things worth reading.\u201d  I doubt that more than a very small fraction of bloggers fall into either of these categories.  But it is the irrepressible nature of the human ego that makes the majority of us believe that we belong to the minority.  With that sentiment in mind, I present this blatantly self-promoting postscript to my SPIE Microlithography Conference diary.<br \/>\nOn day 1, before the keynote talks began, there were the obligatory awards presentations.  I was one of three lithographers elected to the rank of SPIE fellow.  I am certainly honored by this distinction, and hope to one day aspire to the next organizational grade \u2013 jolly good.  Also this week, my new book \u201cField Guide to Optical Lithography\u201d was published (it is shamelessly promoted elsewhere on my website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lithoguru.com\/scientist\/books.html\">www.lithoguru.com\/scientist\/books.html<\/a>).  So on Tuesday morning we had an author\u2019s book signing.  You should have seen the crowds, lined up one, sometimes two deep!  Fortunately, I had a ready supply of multiple pens to handle the throng.  This book will no doubt be a best seller (which first requires a careful recalibration of the meaning of \u201cbest seller\u201d when publishing in such an incredibly arcane field).  <br \/>\nAnd finally, since this the third and, one would hope, last postscript to my conference diary, I\u2019ve collected all of the conference blogs up and put them on one page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lithoguru.com\/scientist\/conferences\/spie_diary_2006.html\">http:\/\/www.lithoguru.com\/scientist\/conferences\/spie_diary_2006.html<\/a>.  For your reading pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog maintained on a personal web page is, almost by definition, self-indulgent. Benjamin Franklin once said, \u201cEither do things worth writing, or write things worth reading.\u201d I doubt that more than a very small fraction of bloggers fall into either of these categories. But it is the irrepressible nature of the human ego that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microlithography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}