If any of you are interested in a road-trip, Rich Hickey is coming to Northampton to talk about Clojure. Details are here:
http://wmassdevs.com/wordpress/2008/02/28/clojure-talk-with-rich-hickey-on-m...
It's March 20th @ 6:30 in Northampton. If you haven't seen clojure yet, it's a lisp dialect that runs on the JVM and has immutable, persistent data-structures and support for concurrent programming.
Hope to see some of you there.