Among the notable celebrities to appear at DrupalCon Paris was the one and only Nice Lobster. The epic tale of DrupalLobsterCon has been recorded and told graphically by Jam (aka HornCologne), and is included below for your amusement.

Last week Acquia sent me to New Orleans to be a speaker at Lullabot's Do it With Drupal conference. The conference went very well and I gave a presentation about ApacheSolr, and how faceted search will change the way you think about finding things on your site. Since Acquia recently announced that we will be launching a hosted Solr search service even more people have shown interest in ApacheSolr. My next talks on ApacheSolr will be at DrupalCamp Cologne in January, and DrupalCon in March. Here are the slides from New Orleans: