Heads up, Aussies!

In a couple of days I’ll be heading out to Australia for a couple of weeks. My proposal for a talk at PyCon Australia had been accepted, and coincidentally Rackspace just launched our cloud in our Sydney datacenter. So I’ll be flying to Sydney to meet all the Rackers in the Sydney office, and then flying the following week to Hobart, Tasmania for the conference.

Except for a trip to Italy on my honeymoon 27 years ago, I have never left the Americas. I have never been south of the Equator. This is going to be a brand-new experience for me, so I’m using it as my motivation to start writing again. I had deliberately avoided blogging for years because I tend to obsess on editing: just one more tweak to that phrasing, or maybe choose a synonym here, or… well, you get the idea. A great example of perfect being the enemy of the good. I’m resolving to change that by instituting a one edit rule: after the post is written, I’ll go over it once, and then publish it. I’m curious to see how difficult that will be to follow!