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So excited to say that I will be attending Drupalcon in DC in March!

This weekend was the 5th DrupalCamp NYC. It was an great weekend of sessions for new people, through vetrens and every level in between. I tried my best to help out (sometimes heckle) in the Introduction to Drupal session, Introduction to Theming, Intermediate Theming and Introduction to Module Development. This was great cause it allowed me to play tech support also for the participants, and try to keep the sessions moving along.

Just a quick note. Week one down I am still happy with my choice, and I am looking forward to dong and learning more.. Those that don't know that situation is working at Sony BMG in the group that handles the websites of the musicians. The people are awesome (Suzi, Dave, Jared, Andrew & everyone else I have met) and the environment is cool. The work though nothing earth shattering is something new for me, challenging enough to make me feel like I have accomplished something when it is complete.

After almost 12 years working in or around the City of New York (4 years as a provisional civil servant, 4 years as a consultant to City of NY, and 4 years as consultant from Unisys to New York State supporting the City of NY) an era comes to an end this Friday. I have spent years working as an IT jack-of-all-trades for Management Information Services, some of the titles included Senior Network Manager, Citrix Enterprise Engineer and Technical Liason just to name a few.

I have been slacking on my blogging duties do to life kicking my butt, and as always tons going on not to mention the unbelievable amount of comics I have been reading. I have been truly enjoying comics in all their forms. Since the Comic-Con here in NYC I have been consuming comics with reckless abandon.

The next thing that I went to was the Hulk panel at the IGN Theater. The line was freakin' ridiculous, but I met up with my friend Frank and his son and we stood in line. The room that this panel happened in had 2 screens, 1 on either side of the center where the stage / dais where everyone eventually sat to talk. The panel was filled with 2 producers Gale Anne Hurd and Kevin Feige, the director Louis Leterrier and a surprise to us Tim Roth. We were given a talking to by the producers first then the director, then they showed us some footage of Ed Norton transforming.

The second day of the 2008 NY ComicCon was by far the best day for this geek. I started off arriving around 11AM and not really sure where the rooms where the panels were located. I strolled following the cryptic signs and the small amounts of people heading back to the panels area. I went from room to room checking what was there because I had already reviewed the schedule and wasn't too excited about the choices I read on the schedule before I arrived.

Today was the first day of ComicCon in New York at the Jacob Javits center. What a great experience from the booths full of comics, trades and merchandise to the artists sitting just on the otherside of a table. Some of the highlights were seeing some of the video podcasters from within the comic culture like the iFanboy crew and Nick from Varient Edition and seeing a good friend Jon Hoche perform with the Vampire Cowboys. Will check back in tomorrow after day 2... Hope to see you there.

I am sitting in session number 2 called Cloud Talk (S3, EC2, ...) that a gentleman named John Williams is currently giving. This is great cause it isn't Drupal-centric it is cloud computing and tech-centric. And it dovetails beautifully with session number 1 Dru-tube (You-tube in Drupal in 50mins) and it was amazingly well done. Arthur from http://www.24b6.net/ is the one that did Dru-tube, all I have to say is keep an eye out for the video that was taken in that session, this session is what DrupalCamp NYC 4 will be compared against. I will add onto this later if I have the time.

Sitting down in the Intro to Drupal session that Thomas is leading and there are about 40-50 people eagerly hanging on his every word. I am here hoping to help out I love being part of this community and assisting when I can.

Please grab me if you need a hand I will be here for 2 days :)