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If anyone collected these things, these would be collectors' items.

— Robert Douglass - 25.Jan.2009

I can hardly wait to go do DrupalCon 2009 in Washington DC. If you’re as excited about DrupalCon as I am, but are having a hard time finding the money you’d need to attend, perhaps you should apply for one of the 20 scholarships that are being awarded. Anybody in financial need can apply:

So who will these scholarships go to? People who are actively developing with Drupal, who would benefit from attending DrupalCon, and who are already helping the community.

The applications are being reviewed by myself and Drupal legend Károly Négyesi (aka chx). I’m proud to be able to help out with this process, just as I’m proud that the company I work for is a platinum sponsor of the DrupalCon. It makes me feel good to know that the money being raised by the DrupalCon will be used to reach out and help people attend who otherwise wouldn’t be able to. If your company isn’t already a DrupalCon sponsor, it’s not too late. You can contact the organizors online to become a sponsor and help bring Drupal to even more people.

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The Gaza footage is released under the ‘Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution’ license which allows for commercial and non-commercial use. This means that news outlets, filmmakers and bloggers will be able to easily share, remix, subtitle or reuse our footage.

Drupal is an empowering technology, and with this site we, on the outside, gain insight into the lives of humans that are in the midst of an unimaginable struggle.

I was happy to see today that the http://chxcannotbedistracted website is still going strong. For your viewing pleasure, here's the photographic proof that distraction is not possible.

Danjulo Ishizaka's Homepage ... Debüt CD. bei Sony Classical. 2006 ausgezeichnet mit dem "Echo Klassik" ...

This lecture is worth watching to the very last minute. Really - if you're into emotional inspiring life changing moments, don't turn it off before then. I'll be ordering the book. (reposted from CMSReport).

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (cowritten with Jeffrey Zaslow)

Randy Pausch is the computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. This book is based on his last lecture given to his students but written for his family. I've made it a habit of mine to read one chapter a night before I go to bed. This book inspires the living just as much as it inspires the dying. If you have no desire to read the book then do yourself a favor and at least watch the video.

Cleaning up at home, I just found a dot-matrix (!) hard copy (!!) of an e-mail my folks sent me on January 17th, 1996 at my very first e-mail address.
Keep in mind, in early 1996, I had to take a subway across town to the university computer room (yes, "the", not "a"), and hope that a machine was free to get into the UNIX e-mail system. Still it was cheaper than phones or airmail postage across the Atlantic.
So what was my first e-mail address?
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DrupalCamp Cologne will take place on January 17th and 18th, 2009, in Cologne, Germany. Here are pictures of the organization team (known internally as OrgaNicer - say it with a German accent and you’ll get the joke) planning the sessions. We’ve got around 50 sessions and 4 rooms. There are also 12 rooms for groups of 10 people that can be used for spontaneous sessions, lightning talks, BoFs etc.

What are you doing on January 17th and 18th? Hopefully you'll be coming to DrupalCamp Cologne and hanging out with Drupallers from all over the world! This is the first ever Drupal-specific camp or conference that Germany has ever seen, so it will be quite an event.

Dries Buytaert (Drupal founder and project lead, Acquia co-founder and CTO, Mollom co-founder) will be there to talk about Drupal and his latest projects. I'll be holding an Acquia Q&A session, as well as demonstrating the latest ApacheSolr improvements. Jeffrey McGuire (Acquia's documentation lead) will be there as well, ready to help you with your Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 upgrade problems, including those pesky Views 1 to Views 2 conversions. Also not to miss is the Drupal.org Upgrade and Redesign Hackathon - your chance to get your hands dirty with the big Drupal.org redesign project.

On January 19 and 20, 2009, in Cologne Germany, Commerce Guys and AF83 will be joining forces to offer Drupal Ubercart training (registration link). Drupal is a leading web content management system, and Ubercart is a full e-Commerce solution and shopping cart that is built on top of Drupal.

In the training you will learn how to build a web site for a rock band that features blogs, audio and video content, tour dates and an event calendar, fan forums, and an Ubercart-based store where fans can buy t-shirts and music downloads. The website will be based on Acquia Drupal so you will also get a glimpse into the Acquia Network and learn about the advantages of building your site with the support of Acquia. Everybody who attends will get a free Acquia Network subscription and some Acquia schwag.

The training takes place on the two days following DrupalCamp Cologne and will be held in the same venue as DrupalCamp. If you are already planning on attending DrupalCamp Cologne and want to learn even more, this is a great opportunity. If you weren’t sure about making the trip for DrupalCamp Cologne, now you can get even more Drupal and Ubercart action out of your travels.

Commerce Guys are leading Ubercart specialists and were recently selected to build and run the official Drupal store on drupal.org. AF83 are Drupal site-building experts with much experience in providing Drupal training.

"Starbucks - the yuppie McDonald's"

— Chris Hardwick - Wired Magazine online edition