Last week was a three-fer. It was the first time (and I hope also the last) where I attended no less than three different conferences in three different cities. I missed two planes along the way, plus a good day of sleep I'll never get back.

The first was Foo Camp. Foo in this case stood for Friends Of O'Reilly, and was thrown for about two hundred Tim O'Reilly and staff's friends at the company's new campus in Sebastapol. It was, literally, a camp-out. Attendees either pitched tents in the several-acre O'Reilly back yard, or