I’m off to San Francisco, that hub of tech buzz and excitement, for Startup School, Astia Doing it Right Silicon Valley, and general plotting and madcap tomfoolery next week. In typical shoestring mode, I’m being sponsored to do Startup School by Informatics Ventures (woo!) and a mystery sponsor is putting me through Astia (double woo!) – it is heartwarming when people are this helpful.

There’s a group of us from Edinburgh heading over, and we’ll probably have some sort of meetup the day after Startup School, so watch this space or Hacker News for info.

I have a week to ‘kill’ between the two events and hope to, finally, do some proper sightseeing and exploring of the area. I’m hatching a plan that will relocate me to SF for at least some of next year, and my previous visits, while tons of fun (GDC especially), didn’t get me to really see the entire place in the way I had seen Edinburgh and decided “I could live here”.

We shall see. Anyway, if there are any events I should know about in the last week of October, or you want to buy me a pint, be my guest!