Out of Cheese

A few days back, I mentioned that I’m moving in a few days. And a few months back, I mentioned that I was probably going to ADHOC this year. Actually, I did more than think about going — I signed up to give a talk about advanced debugging techniques on Mac OS X.

If you use NetNewsWire, have the "highlight differences" preference enabled, and read the ADHOC weblog, you might’ve noticed a change in the Confirmed Sessions list last week. Namely, I dropped off of it. Not only am I not speaking; I’m not attending ADHOC at all.

When I decided to go to the conference, I knew I’d be moving this summer, but I didn’t know when. One thing led to another, and I realized last week that if I went to ADHOC I’d essentially only have this Saturday to move before our lease is up on the 26th. One day just doesn’t cut it, particularly if anything goes wrong. Rather than risk having my furniture out the street with nowhere to go or anything else along those lines, I decided to back out of ADHOC.

Fortunately, the conference organizers have been terrific about it. (One actually has an even worse moving conflict with ADHOC than I do. I feel really sorry for him.) In exchange for them being so nice about it, I’ve promised to show up and give a talk next year. So there’s at least one name on the ADHOC 2005 speakers list already.