Victoria Steam Expo II, Craigdarroch Castle, Sep 24-25, 2011

The second Victoria Steam Expo will be held in and around Craigdarroch Castle on September 24 and 25, 2011. A ticket for the two-day extravaganza will set you back $40. Featured guest are San Francisco's "glam-noir siren" Jill Tracy and Vancouver Island steampunk artistic genius Kyle Miller, whose business is Thin Gypsy Thief Studios.

Uploaded "Shades of Asperion" excerpt to SoundCloud

You have some technological angst and consider yourself a barbarian among the automated? Have a listen to the excerpt from my "Shades of Asperion" on SoundCloud. I only discovered after I'd finished the piece that there's a hospice in the state of Georgia named Asperion, along with a hotel in England, both of which might be haunted by their own shades. Given the coincidental occurrence of the second Victoria Steam Expo, I might have been channeling some of my steampunk's muse into this piece.

Niépce in England international conference, October 2010, England

British photographic historian Michael Pritchard posted an announcement on his site about an international conference in October 2010 in England on Niépce in England in October 2010. Details are also available through the first announcement brochure (PDF) he posted.

Attending OCLC WebJunction online conference

I'm attending a two-day OCLC WebJunction online conference on technology essentials for libraries. The conference is being broadcast through Cisco's WebEx platform. The conference sessions will be archived at http://webjunction.org/conferences. The Twitter hashtag is #wjconf. I'll post this as well on my Ten Thousand Year Blog and you'll see tweets from that source.