As the tech world continues to heat up year-on-year, the conference season starts up earlier and earlier. It’s reached a point where the entire year becomes one great big geek piss up, with a short break at Christmas to get drunk with our families instead.

In fact, the next few months suddenly look rather busy:

• BarCamp London 2 (Saturday–Sunday) in London
• South by South-West Interactive (March 7th–15th) in Austin, Texas
• Future of Web Design (April 18th) in Kensington, London

BarCamp is going to be a lot of fun. It’ll be my second experience of presenting, something that experience and confidence can only improve. Last year, Steve Marshall and I threw something together on Workflow and it was tough going when it came to stand up. This time around we’re divorcing to do our own thing, which should make it easier; only needing to fill a 30 minute slot rather than 60. I’m also sitting on the microformats panel, so I’m putting together some demo’s to introduce that, with a slight new twist.