Elizabeth recommended driving to Belleville because it's half way from Toronto to Ottawa and so here I am. Why Toronto and why Ottawa? In Toronto I had meetings with three different clients. All three are moving over to Drupal. In Ottawa I'll be attending BSDCan (at least that's my plan, I've technically missed the registration deadline, but I have a feeling they'll take cash at the door) and checking in with Sarah (and Evan) and Leslie.

I'm also going to be back in Toronto again next weekend for more meetings and Drupal Camp Toronto. At this rate it looks like I'll be presenting a session on migrating content into Drupal. There's still lots of voting to be done though! Let's see how it all shakes out. 

I've added a second proposal to the Drupal Camp Toronto site (May 23-24 ... register NOW as there are only a very few spaces left). Apparently the Toronto group is very much NOT interested in learning more about the socks. Take Two is a technical overview of how to import your existing Web site into a Drupal framework. Because sometimes you just gotta dress up and play geek...

Moving in: how to port your content from * to Drupal

You've decided to make the switch to Drupal. Fantastic! Only one problem: you have to figure out how to move your content from the old database to Drupal. Although there are many import/export modules available
it's sometimes good to know what's happening behind the scenes. This session will walk you through my adventures of porting community Web sites into Drupal.

The talk will include:

• exporting usable data from your old site;
• using CCK to create the right home for your new content;
• using existing import modules (specifically: import html, node import and user import); and
• importing content "by hand" using MySQL command line magic.

We will also touch on some of the headaches I ran into in keeping data synchronized on very active community sites during the development phase (aside: I will be using specific examples from www.crochetme.com as well as other community Web sites).

This session is perfect for people who are preparing to migrate their Web site to Drupal and also people who are new to database management but want to know more about how things work behind the scenes. Of course if you're already a pro at data migration, please bring your stories and suggestions!

Tarragon and chervil are both vaguely liquorice-flavoured, but in different ways. Pork tastes nice when cooked "sweet." So tonight I roasted braised pork with chervil and tarragon and garlic. I threw some figs in at the last minute as well (I should have added the figs earlier). I kept the lid on the pork so that it wouldn't dry out...the effect was similar to poaching.

The results were odd, but delicious. I've never had anything like it. The idea to combine tarragon and chervil came from Bernaise sauce....which I discovered while trying to figure out what you're supposed to do with chervil.

In other news: I've been trying find a redeeming quality of the weird grass that has completely infected my lawn. At first I thought it was crab grass and then bluegrass. I'm not convinced about either now. But I am delighted that it can be easily raked up. On part of the lawn it turns out the grass seems to have left its root system on top of the soil. Scrape, scrape, scrape. There are still tufts that are stuck in the ground, but the lawn is much cleaner now than it was earlier. Cleaner for my TOMATOES! I have three varieties of heritage tomatoes from The Cottage Gardener: Amish Paste Tomato, Riesenstraube Tomato (cherry tomato) and Bloody Butcher (see pictures). There's heritage basil too, but I haven't started those seeds yet. That's right: I'm going to have a garden full of weird herbs, heritage tomatoes and basil. Yummy.

A slightly less professional version of myself in the Mass Debate at LugRadio Live USA (San Francisco). I'm sporting my completely destroyed voice in this presentation (it took me literally two weeks to recover). Mako had the right idea for this panel discussion. He was taking notes while other panelists were talking and always had something coherent to say. Nicely done!

I enjoyed being on the panel but I think I need to do a better job of explaining who I am. Everyone here knows that I wear about a billion different hats. So when it comes to distilling who I am, it's hard for people to figure it out...because I haven't figured it out yet. I'd like to think I'm a lot more than just representing women in open source. Please leave your feedback on how you think women should be introduced on a tech panel discussion... especially ones who've delivered a presentation on gender and technology as part of the same conference.

Please note: this isn't a slight against the moderator. He's a fantastic guy that helped me immensely in the preparation of my talk. It's a question of how we ought to present the essence of a person's conference topic to an audience that may not have heard the presentation. If it were a craft panel with one token male knitter that had talked about the Men’s Spring Knitting Retreat we'd have to brace ourselves against asking The Man to represent Men (while the scenario is ficticious the event does exist, and my understanding is that some of the credit goes to local knitter Ted).

Also: huge shouts out to Patti for getting me on the Craftzine blog again. You rock!!