So, what the hell happened to me...
Weeellllll, so, we were in Rome (don't expect the link to work just yet... I haven't written that yet), which took up time (I even left my laptop home, which was kind of odd, and definitely a Good Thing). Since then, I've been working with Edd on whipping the proceedings for XTech into shape, and writing a processing system to structure them and spit out something web-useful.
And that's it really. Lots of work, and now I'm sat at Heathrow waiting for my flight to Amsterdam so I can actually attend said conference. As Edd points out, it's a seriously good line-up, and, based on last year, it should be enormous fun, and there's a serious amount of knowledge to be snarfed up.
There's still time to just turn up on the door: We're in the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, which is very nice, and very central.