A twitter update from Shashi led to an article on James Hong, creator of (among other things) Hot Or Not, where at some point between 2000 and 2003 I uploaded a photo of myself, probably obsessed over it for a few weeks, and then promptly forgot about it.

So I haven’t looked at this thing in 5 years or more, and was suddenly curious about what my rating might be.

The answer? Slightly above average.

This weekend is a pre-Grand Opening "parts party" for HACDC:

Would you eat meat grown in a lab?

It makes me quite happy that Eavesdrop DC posted one I submitted.

Tech Cocktail DC 2 is on April 24th.

11 months ago this week, I published a short email interview with Nick O’ Neill and Frank Gruber about Tech Cocktail DC 1.

This is based on no real information, and includes events and groups I haven’t participated with, but I submit to you that the graphic below is a *reasonable* snapshot of the local tech community, even with at least two notable blind-spots (Enterprise IT and Government Everything).

Also note that the two axis I’ve chosen do not represent any sort of value judgement. I personally find the stuff on the right more interesting,  but I’m glad it all exists.

May have more later.

Bonnie Bogle sends word that Downtown Drupal-shop Development Seed is holding an event tomorrow on Google’s Summer of Code 2008:

Congrats to the Blogdigger team, especially friend-o-mine and the Pride of Baltimore,  Greg Gershman.

The number of ways to use DC Tech Events has been expanding enough that I suppose it deserves it’s own periodic "Where’s Ross" style post.