I managed to get my conference presentations in on time, for both conferences. I'm doing two talks at the OReilly conference - Intro to Apache, and Migrating to Apache 2.0. I expect that I will end up making both papers quite a bit more verbose over the next month before the conference, but I am pretty happy with them as they are.

I also, last night, submitted 5 (yes, five) talks to the OReilly OSX Conference. I think it's the same 4 that I submitted to the OSSCon, plus the "Migrating to 2.0" talk that I've developed since then. There are two bad things that could happen. Either none of them get accepted, which would be bad, or all of them would be accepted, which would probably be worse. If 2 or 3 of them are accepted, I would be very happy. Of course, that would mean that I would have to locate an OSX machine somewhere. Although folks assure me that it is indistinguishable from BSD, I have my doubts about this.

Final item. This afternoon, I attended "ITEC" which was a technology conference/trade show in Louisville. It was sponsored by Intel and Gateway, and a lot of area tech businesses were there. I made a few good contacts there, and hopefully a couple of them will actually turn into something useful, like, say, paying work.