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I’m sitting in Canada’s biggest blogging conference, grooving out by hanging out with my blogroll. But the network’s acting up, and I can’t seem to check all of my RSS feeds, nor can I access services like email back at the U of C. I can see many sites, but UCalgary appears to have dropped off the net (from here, at least). I can post to my blog and Flickr, though.

I guess I’ll have to fall back on some form of analog communication techniques…

I just cashed in all of my Aeroplan miles for a return flight to Northern Voice 2006. I’m SOOOOO looking forward to those couple of days in Vancouver. I’m skipping the DrupalCon that’s in town the week prior to NV so I’m not away from the family toooo much… I was originally planning on hitting both events to gather ideas for the seemingly endless lineup of Drupal-related projects we’re working on at the Learning Commons, but will settle for lurking on whatever online component they have, and catching the Coles Notes version during Moose Camp…

Booking the tickets through the Aeroplan program was less painful than I expected, but they sure have a weird method of selecting flights - they provided me with about 10 preselected combinations of flights on the days I selected. I couldn’t just pick the individual flights with the times I wanted. I suppose that’s the tradeoff for cashing in on an almost-free trip…

I just bought my registration to Northern Voice 2006 - for the full 2-day extravaganza including Moose Camp. I’m SOOOO looking forward to this. I’ll be taking time off to do it, and traveling on my own dime, but it’s going to be awesome. This year’s conference was one of the high points of a decidedly hectic and memorable year.

And, to make it even better, Alan and Brian will be there too, marking the first Three Amigos reunion since NMC 2004! The Three Amigos ride again, but this time on a big ol’ Canadian moose!

I’m looking forward to this more than a WWDC or even NMC2005 (which was in Hawaii for crying out loud)!

Now to try to figure out how to convince Janice that airfare is actually an investment, not a luxury

I had a total blast at Northern Voice 2005. It was probably the most laid-back-yet-productive conferences I’ve been to. It was structured, but not corporate. Loose, but not chaotic. It had a very strong feeling of community - a grassroots “feel” to it, even though many of the “big names” of the blogosphere were there. It was a total community event, and I met so many people from such a wide variety of backgrounds - a real eye opener.

The conference, and especially hanging out at Casa del Lamb the night before, was one of the highlights of the year for me.

It looks like it’s going to be an even bigger/better (but not too big - it’s still at Robson, so it can’t grow much bigger - yay!) event this year, with a pre-conference “Moose Camp” hands-on event. They also realized what a hot commodity the “Bloggable” t-shirt is, and are making them available (for a fee) to everyone. (I’ve worn mine so much that people are likely sick of seeing it It’s been to every conference I’ve gone to, as well…)

I’ve got no idea if I’ll be able to make it to Northern Voice 2006, but if there is any way I can swing it, I’ll be there! I might even try to convince some other Learning Commons folks to make the trip…

As for the issue of the “conference tag” - some software chokes on spaces in tags, so I’d vote for “nv06″ and/or “northernvoice2006″ - both of which are applied to this post.