Hi folks,

We were hoping to have the registration form for the conference up and running today, but we had to make some changes to the workshop schedule last week that now must be coded into the registration form before it can go live. The form is now in the hands of our techies, and it shouldn’t be much longer before it’s ready to go. We’ve been playing around with a demo version of the form and it works really well, so we’re confident that you’ll find it a straighforward process to register. Plus, we’re lucky to have a number of labs that can hold more than the usual 25 people, and a number of presenters who have agreed to take more than 25 people in their workshops, so we’re also confident that there’ll be plenty of space to accommodate everyone once registration finally does open. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

In other news, HOLY COW DID YOU SEE THAT HOCKEY GAME LAST NIGHT!!?? Yay Canada! Local boy Sidney Crosby came through with the game-winning goal in sudden-death overtime to give us not only the (arguably) most coveted gold medal of the games (at least as far as we Canadians are concerned), but also our 14th gold, breaking the record for the most gold medals earned by one country in the winter Olympics. Plus he’s won the Stanley Cup. He’s 22. What were you doing when you were 22?

Come to the ABLE conference in June. Sidney Crosby won’t be there, but I can show you where his parents live . Also, we have Starbucks.

Jen

Sidney Crosby; image obtained from Wikimedia Commons