So, any of y'all planning to be at LISA next month? I'll be there Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; mostly commuting but I might get a local hotel room for Monday night just because it's less annoying than the Metro commute.

I decided I could manage to spend a whopping $10 to see The National, Girl Talk, and Pete Tong (plus St. Vincent and Mates of State if I feel like spending 14 hours or so at Merriweather). Anyone else going to the Virgin festival tomorrow? They released a bunch of tickets today at 10; I expect anyone who paid $100 for a ticket on craigslist ( Read more... )

From my inbox today (copypasta, apply [sic] as necessary):
She's Geeky is coming to Northern Virginia - the DC Area ( Read more... )

Things I'm thinking about trekking around the area for:

• Ignite Baltimore October 16th. Selfishly I wish it was Ignite Arlington. [Edit: No, it's not a pyrotechnics conference. Sorry!]
  
• OpenSQL Camp November 14th-16th. Charlottesville is almost, but not quite, commuting distance for me.
  

Anyone I know going to be attending either of those things?

It's that time again: time to try and convice the Powers That Be to blow the budget on a conference. Where should I start? Yes, I realize that to have a particularly useful answer you'd need to have more information; answering polls is so much more fun when you're pulling an answer out of thin air though. ;)

Poll blowing the conference budgetMy own preferences in order are: ( Read more... )

I just registered for php|tek in Orlando the week of April 24; unfortunately talking to a coworker about his Joe Satriani tickets reminded me that the Great Big Sea show I have good tickets for is around that time, which I had totally forgotten about. Luckily for me, it turns out to be that Friday night the 28th and the conference ends around mid- ( Read more... )

It would be much, much easier to write a compelling justification for why I should get to attend OSCON if they'd hurry up and post a schedule. "You should send me because, uh, it'd be really kewl. There's lots of stuff there." Not going to cut it with the folks with the budget, sadly. Hopefully this year there won't be a repeat of last year's ( Read more... )