Damn! Speaking of geeky gatherings, I just learned that the upcoming RailsConf 2006 conference's selected talks have been published and after a quick scan through the talk descriptions, I'm happy that the conference sold out ages ago. Otherwise, I would've been tempted to do a little summer vacation trip to Chicago in June. And that would've cost muchos dolares...

On a side note, it's an interesting phenomenon that a conference sells out weeks before the program is made public? If my memory serves me correct, only the keynotes were known at the time registration opened :)