March is about to become a mad month for me, starting tomorrow (or perhaps it started on Friday, with Geek Ninja Battle Night). Today, I'm off to London, staying overnight at Heathrow (and hopefully attending this evening's NSCoder night in London) before flying to Lithuania tomorrow where, on Thursday, I will be presenting the opening keynote at the LOGIN conference, in front of an expected audience of over 2,000 (no pressure!)

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It looks like I'm going to go from never having attended a TED event to attending two within a month of each other. I'm hugely excited to have been invited to attend TEDxAmsterdam at the end of this month and, a week after that, I'm going to be attending TEDxBrussels.

The sessions at TEDxAmsterdam range from Nanobiosym – the convergence of physics, nanotechnology and biomedicine – to the presentation of two arias by a certain world-class soprano.

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I had an absolute blast previewing my new talk, Aim for the low-hanging fruit (or 5 rules for Hedonistic Developers), at the Adobe User Group events in Amsterdam and Ghent during the Adobe CS4 launch.

I always love presenting in both the Netherlands and Belgium -- you guys are so awesome -- and this time was no exception.

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These be teh awesomez! Love this set of photos by Pieter Van den Bosch from our gig in Amsterdam.

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It was a tiring but fun three days in Amsterdam last week.

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