Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

When I was a kid I was a big fan of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. I did then and do now have trouble hearing lyrics in English songs. So when Tavares sang:

"More than a woman / More than a woman to me baby" What I heard was: More man than woman / More man than woman to me

It's that time of year again. This will be my third DrupalCon and they have gotten progressively more insane. I bought my ticket way back in October of last year and it turned out to be a good idea. DrupalCon has been sold out for a long time now with over 1300 attendees and tickets being sold on eBay. We have a nice little Danish expedition heading to DC. I believe there are about 10 of us from the Danish Drupal Community going which is quite an increase over the 4 Danes in Boston last year.

If you are there look me up. I'll be the one with the exploding head who can't handle all the inputs. Just take a look at the massive schedule.

Sometimes B has projects that I get involved in. I don't always understand why I'm doing what I'm doing, but it very rewarding to work on small, strange creative projects. This weekend I was pulled into the wonderful world of animation. I can't tell you waht the end product will be, but I present to you: Jerry Springer animating into Drew Carey.

Many phones have automatic keypad locking and it's great. It does not however stop your children from repeatedly calling one person over and over and over.

Peter, if you're reading this: I did not return any of the 42 calls I received from your young daughter because I could not understand the messages.

It's here, I'm going to bed. More lumieres over here.

I have a YouTube account. I don't use it for anything, but YouTube uses it to serve me three recommended videos on their front page. I've been collecting these for the a while and they are... perplexing.

I just received this in my mailbox from Subhankar Das:

Hi There,

I need your help. i love a girl & want to marry.but i'v not home.& i've not much money to bye,can you help me to bye a home, plz...... if u want to help me plz contact me.....plz plz plz.................

Three weeks ago I attended DrupalCamp Copenhagen and it was a blast. There are rumours of a new event at some point in the spring and if you have even the slightest interest in Drupal you should show up. No doubt about it.

As an experienced Drupal developer I arrived mostly for the run down of the Apache Solr Drupal integration and other more advanced sessions, but what struck me as the real value was the work done to teach those who were just getting started with Drupal.

These days I do Drupal all day, every day and I work with some extremely talented people. It's easy to forget that we were all beginners at one point and DrupalCamp reminded me. There was a very large group of Drupal newcomers and they were all attentive, interested and before all motivated to learn how this thing we call Drupal works.

The organizers had done a good job assembling a track for beginners. There were general intros (a session called "Don't hack core" - matching one of the tshirts), intro to theming and I did an intro to Views 2 and CCK 2. However my favourite session was "How do I?" by Camilla and Thomas from Peytz. I have worked with both of them extensively and they're Drupal rockstars, but for this session they held back. After a quick demonstration of how to make a tennis club website they started to take questions fro the participants.

Many of the people in the session were in the process of making their first Drupal website and they all had questions. How do I upgrade my modules, how do I modify themes downloaded from drupal.org and so on. There were a handful of more experienced Drupal developers and themers in the room who sat down and helped the rest. There was a great vibe in the room and it gave me energy to see all these people so motivated about learning how to do Drupal.

The photo above is Thomas during the "How do I?" session. I've put up a few more photos, but I didn't take many since I only brought a bulky film SLR with me.

Say hello to the newest member of our small family. We don't know his name because he got lost from his people and picked up by the nice people at the shelter. So we call him Malcolm since we don't know his past. He also has a large X-shaped scar on his neck from the operation the shelter had to perform on a wound there and we like revolutionaries here.

We are having some small issues with the litterbox (a small amount of litter consistently ends up on the floor), but apart from that Malcolm has adjusted surprisingly fast to his new home. He has taken to sleeping with us and routinely takes up more space than me and enjoys the view of the birds in the tree outside our window.

He's an older gentleman at 10 years of age, but it's not holding him back from jumping around like a kitten. The only difference is that he has manners. He will (eventually) settle down when we're eating and will wait patiently for someone to get up and feed him in the mornings.

At first I was wondering if Malcolm would let me rub his belly. I know that it's something that cats can be particular about. I needed not worry; as you can see in the video from his first night home he not only enjoys, but often demands to have his belly rubbed.