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Well Wow!! What a first day! The speakers have been brilliant! The delegates have been superb. Andy has out done himself with all the organising! Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves and the beer is flowing freely (which always makes people happy!) Soon they will all be heading off to the Haymarket for more beers! I've uploaded some photos from last night and today to my flickr account - I'll add some titles at some point soon, but feel free to add and comments/notes/insults.

Well Scotch on the Rocks is literally only hours away! I believe there are still a few tickets available (by paypal only), so if you still haven't got your tickets you might just be lucky! I shall be travelling up on the from Newcastle and arriving at 3pm on the Wednesday afternoon and it looks like I won't be the only one. So if you're out and about, twiddling your thumbs, then meet us in the "The Mercat Bar" I may be the sad git wearing the green Macromedia User Group T-Shirt or I may be incognito! ;)

Agent A has just passed me a coded transmission that would suggest that there are less than 30 tickets left for Scotch and first level of Agent K's pledge will come into affect imminently. With the Scorpio UG Tour under way in the US, there has already been some discussion about the new features on the Scottish CFUG Mailing list

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If you haven't already seen Online Registration is now available for Scotch '007 - Just head on over to the site and click on the banner on the home page. If you still interested in paying by bank transfer or cheque, give Andy and I a shout via scotch at scottishcfug dot com. Scotch also has a couple of new sponsors. Integral will be sponsoring the lanyards for Scotch as well as supplying us with copies of FusionDebug and Fusion Reactor to give away as prizes at the conference. Knowledge House, my new employers as it happens, also join the list of Bronze sponsors and will be giving me some stuff to put in the delegate's swag bags. I should also give honourable mention to Fuzzy Orange - Andy Allan's company, who have upped their sponsorship to the silver level. Big thank to Andy for all his efforts in heading up organising this event. I've also posted a draft of the agenda on to the site for your delight and delectation. We've got a great bunch of speakers and I'm looking forward to seeing as many of them speak as possible. Take a look for yourselves at http://scotch.scottishcfug.com/agenda.cfm Anyway, back to work for me ;)

Wow! How empty is my blog?!! Guess I should write about something! Take a look at the Scotch Agenda! The interogation rooms are all booked, so we've just posted when you can see each of the torture sessions. Added to sessions is a one for myself. I shall be running a networking session, probably as a speed meeting on the Friday morning. If you have no idea what a speed meeting is, take a look at the related articles.