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Temporary distraction: poking around and figuring out the URL to download one of the QuickTime HD trailers for "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" so that I can watch it from my desktop when I need a break. Entirely worksafe porn! ("Wtf?" icon not particularly relevant to post content other than in the context of "Girl, don't you have anything at all better to do?", but I'm using it anyway because it gives me bad, slashy thoughts; the only thing it's missing is scruffy Norrington. Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Zoot!)

If you care, the direct link to the 127 MB 720p trailer is here and the 50 MB 480p version is here

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It's that time again: time to try and convice the Powers That Be to blow the budget on a conference. Where should I start? Yes, I realize that to have a particularly useful answer you'd need to have more information; answering polls is so much more fun when you're pulling an answer out of thin air though. ;)

[Poll #950632]

My own preferences in order are: OSCON (although I'm severely hampered by the fact they don't put up any session information or registration info until well after I'd have to have registered for the other two I'm really interested in), MySQL, php|tek (I went to this last year and was pleased with the technical content). My coworker will probably go to LISA.