I spent the last week in New York

I spent the last week in New York with some people from london.pm.

On Thursday we met ny.pm. Much cultural cross-pollenisation ensured - and some great pizza.

Also on Thursday, Chromatic's review of "Data Munging with Perl" finally appeared on Slashdot. Thisa lead to the usual high level of discussion (!) but for once the Slashdot effect was overwhelmingly positive. Watching the Amazon sales rank over the next 24 hours was very interesting. The highest that I saw it on amazon.com was 86 and on amazon.co.uk it got to 38 (which made it the best selling computer book on amazon.co.uk - albeit just for a couple of hours!).

All in all, that made Friday a great day to meet Marjan and Helen from Manning for dinner. They were _very_ happy about the way things are going. We could need a second printing very soon.

The transcript for the linux.com online chat has just appeared online too. All in all, there's plenty of good publicity around at the moment - it's all very exciting!