Well, the time has come. I am now sitting in my hotel room, counting the minutes until it is time for me to give my first talk.

I am very excited for the conference this week, as there are some very interesting topics being talked about. I am looking forward to a lot of the talks including the following:

• Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
• Python 3000
• How to Herd Cats and Influence People
• Who Gets to Decide What Open Source Means?
• PHP: Bigger and Faster
• Hello? Is There a User in the House?
• GPLv3 for People Who Aren't Lawyers
• VIM for PHP Programmers
• Super-sizing YouTube
• When Interface Design Attacks!
• Next Generation Version Control Systems
• Writing Big Apps with Google Web Toolkit
• Subversion Worst Practices

I really would like to attend the Django Master Class, but it is during the same time as my tutorial. If anyone going to that would be willing to take good notes, please let me know. Thanks a lot!

Overall, I am very excited for the conference. On top of all of the smart people that will be around, all of the cool topics being talked about, and all of the great connections that can be made, I happen to be turning 21 on Thursday(7/26), so it will cap the entire week of with a lot of fun.

Woo! Time to have some fun!

Well, it has been quite an adventure to get from good ole Corvallis to the beautiful Sydney. After 16 hours in a plane, we finally landed, and started our expedition in the 'down under'.

Right now, I am sitting here in the Gnome Mini-conference listening to Nigel Tao go through some of the lesser known interface features of Gnome. Fun times!

Throughout the conference look for a lot of these little short posts as I don't have internet access in my hotel room, and I don't want to spend much time on the computer during talks.