Back home from WordCamp UK

I’m back from WordCamp UK. It was a fant­astic week­end and I am very pleased to have met so many inter­est­ing and tal­en­ted people.

The present­a­tions and talks were very inform­at­ive, and I learnt a lot, which is always a good thing. I have to thank my fel­low ques­tion time par­ti­cipants and fel­low code sur­geons for our sections.

There has already been talk of next year’s WordCamp and I can’t wait.

Almost ready for WordCampUK

I’m almost ready for my trip to WordCamp UK. I’m going first thing tomor­row morn­ing by train. “It’s easier by train”, and as it hap­pens, the car is broken and in the menders!

I for­got to men­tion that I am also on the Code Sur­gery panel on Sunday too. If you have any cod­ing prob­lems there is still time to sub­mit your ques­tions to the sur­geons.

There are still a couple more hours to buy tick­ets. Please come along, I look for­ward to see­ing you there.

I’ll Be Speaking At WordCamp UK

Ooh! I’ve been invited to sit on the panel for a ques­tion and answer ses­sion on Sat­urday at WordCamp UK. I’m sort of look­ing for­ward to it.

The cur­rent run­ning order has the panel on just before lunch, but I don’t think that’s final­ised yet.

Tick­ets are still on sale and it’s a ticket only event. No ticket, no get­ting in.

Check out the all new WordCamp UK 2008 blog.

Aspiring Artist Kate

K8, Jan’s niece and a really tal­en­ted artist, has just had a story about her latest col­lege pro­ject pub­lished in the Manchester Even­ing News: Skel­eton key to art suc­cess.

…after weeks of sketch­ing and plan­ning she com­pleted the incred­ible model in just 11 days.

“I gen­er­ally do have a freaky kind of style to my work,” said Kate. “My fam­ily and friends joke that I am not right and need help. But I’m prob­ably the most happy, jolly per­son you will ever meet — so I don’t know where it comes from.”

Kate and her skeleton

Image © M.E.N. media 2008

“Kate is a very tal­en­ted indi­vidual who could really go places,” said Mr Sut­ton “When she first talked about mak­ing the skel­eton I did won­der whether she would be able to pull it off. Tech­nic­ally it’s very com­pet­ent. It’s outstanding.

Well done K8, you deserve the recognition.