Image by Gary Bar­ber — and yes, that’s me :)

Mar­vel­lous Max­ine has posted the ses­sion times for Web Direc­tions South 2008. Good news and bad (for me, any­way) – my ses­sion Start­ing and Run­ning a Suc­cess­ful Web Busi­ness is on the first morn­ing, at the same time as both Cana­dian Iron Acces­si­bil­ity Man Derek Feath­er­stone and the awe­some Dmitry Bara­novsky.

That’s good news because my speak­ing stint is over and done with on the first morn­ing and after that I can relax, and as The Man With No Blog pointed out on Twit­ter, I can have a drink or two on the first night (not that I’d do any­thing like that, of course) whereas fel­low Perthite Myles Eftos has to chill out until the after­noon of the sec­ond day, when his Web APIs, Oauth and OpenID ses­sion is on. Also good because against com­pe­ti­tion like that, no one will turn up to my session!

Bad news in that I’ll miss see­ing both Derek and Dmitry – it would have been a hard deci­sion to decide between them already. Dmitry’s Advanced JavaScript ses­sion at WebDU was a high­light of that con­fer­ence, and I’ve seen Derek speak before, sev­eral times in fact, so I know he’s always great! For­tu­nately Derek will be deliv­er­ing the open­ing keynote at the Edge of the Web con­fer­ence in Perth in Novem­ber, so I guess I’ll save all my fan girl gig­gling for then.

As Max­ine has pointed out, all the ses­sions are recorded any­way, so no one has to really miss out on anything.