Well, this is an interesting turn of events. I'm sat on a train down to London on my way to the Future Of Web Apps conference. My friend John said a while ago that he was going to go and suggested I give it a look. Just perusing the list of people going and the subjects they were covering for 30 seconds was all I needed to start pestering my boss to let me go! That was a few months ago and suddenly it starts tomorrow.

I'm sure I'll meet lots of interesting people, listen to lots of interesting things, learn a hell of a lot, have a few ideas pop into my head and come back with my creative juices flowing at Maximum Homerdrive. I'm not going to do the Scoble thing of sitting in a conference blogging about what's going on as it happens. As anybody who's seen me cook knows, I struggle to poach eggs at the same time as making toast – so I'll stick to doing one thing at a time if you don't mind!

I've never been to anything like this before so I'm not entirely sure what to expect but I'll keep my mind and eyes open. Should be fun! I'll keep you posted…