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Just to let you all know a new Facebook group has been created for the Scotch on the road!

Make sure you register today!

Still not got a ticket for Scotch on the road. Can't convince your manager to part with the £49+vat. Don't worry, you can still win a ticket! Check out http://www.andyjarrett.com/andy/blog/index.cfm/2009/5/7/A-free-ticket-to-Scotch-up-for-grabs

For first prize in the the Fridays Joke: Scotch on the Road competition there is now 1 ticket for Scotch on the Road up for Grabs! You can use this ticket at ANY of the three venues, London, Manchester, or Edinburgh

Nick Tong from TalkWebSolutions.co.uk has sponsored my Fridays Joke: Scotch on the Road competition to offer this prize so get your entries in.

The prizes:

• 3rd place will get their joke posted on my blog on Monday, June 1st which is the first day, London, conference.
• 2nd place will get their joke posted on my blog on Wednesday, June 3rd which is the second day, Manchester, conference.
• 1st place will get 1 Ticket to Scotch on the Road and they will be the Fridays Joke on both my blog and the Scotch blog on the June 5th which coincides with the last day Edinburgh event. Plus there is a bottle of whisky i'm giving away that I was fortunate enough to win at a previous Scotch event

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Update: First Prize now includes a Free ticket to Scotch on the Road. Nick Tong from TalkWebSolutions.co.uk has sponsored my Fridays Joke: Scotch on the Road competition so get your entries in.

I'm running a "send in a joke" competition for the Scotch on the Road conference and it's simple, all you have to do is send a joke!

The prizes:

• 3rd place will get their joke posted on my blog on Monday, June 1st which is the first day, London, conference.
• 2nd place will get their joke posted on my blog on Wednesday, June 3rd which is the second day, Manchester, conference.
• 1st place will get 1 Ticket to Scotch on the Road and they will be the Fridays Joke on both my blog and the Scotch blog on the June 5th which coincides with the last day Edinburgh event. Plus there is a bottle of whisky i'm giving away that I was fortunate enough to win at a previous Scotch event

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If the low low price of £49+vat (which is at a low of 15%) for a ticket to Scotch on the Road wasn't enough the guys have put together a Managers Information Pack for download.

Designed to give you're boss a little extra incentive for convincing that, "conferences are good; benefit you and your company ... and you get a ton of freebies too."

Check out: http://www.scotch-on-the-rocks.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/20/SOTR-Managers-Information-Pack

Scotch On The Rocks has changed a little this year and is going on the roads with hopefully 3 one day events up and down the country, 2 of them already confirmed.

• Monday 1st June, London. This will be at the Sway Bar. Click here to learn more
• Wednesday June 3rd, Manchester. More details to come
• Friday 5th June 2009, Edinburgh This will be at the The Caves. Click here to learn more

And the cost of the One Day Events:

• £49 + VAT - 1 Event
• £89 + VAT - 2 Events
• £129 + VAT - 3 Events
• Group discount of 5 for the price of 4.

Being a one-day event will make it even more accessible to developers that can't usually afford to take a couple of days of and the price should make it a little easier for your manager to swallow too!

After last weeks Wee Dram announcement more information and registration is now available.

Its going to be a London ColdFusion conference in replacement for the sadly Cancelled CFDEVCON. A chance to see some of the best ColdFusion Speakers from the US and of course the UK's own Mark Drew (What ColdFusion Conference would be complete without him)

Where:
Square Pig
30 - 32 Proctor Street
Holborn
London
WC1R 4QG

When:
Thursday 25th September 2008, 10am to 6pm

Who (Schedule):
10:00 - Key Note - From Adam Lehman & Claude Englebert
11:00 - Break
11:15 - Coldspring by Mark Drew
12:15 - Break
12:30 - RAD Object Oriented CF Development by Peter Bell
13:30 - Lunch
14:15 - High Availability: Clustering ColdFusion Applications by Mike Brunt
15:15 - Break
15:30 - Subversion - better living through branches by Sean Corfield
16:30 - Break
16:45 - Setting up a Solid Level Local Dev Environment by Kurt Wiersma
17:45 - Thank Yous & Raffles
18:00 - Networking in the bar

How much:
£10 on the Door [Cash Only] (Includes 2 Free Drinks + 10% off SOTR09)
Click here to register now

For those of you who might not know A Wee Dram is a Scotish euphemism for a single shot of malt Scotch

Or in the case of ColdFusion developers its a single one day shot conference being held in the wake of CFDevcon being cancelled on Thursday 25h September.

Check out more at http://aweedram.com

For even more information check out http://inner-rhythm.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2008/8/27/Anyone-for-A-Wee-Dram-of-Scotch

Being the last day of the SOTR i'd thought I should keep the joke topical even though I couldn't make it up this year. Enjoy!

A dude walks into a bar and says to the bartender : "I want a 12 years old scotch, and don't try to fool me because I can tell the difference."

The bartender is skeptical and decides to try to trick the man with a 3 year old scotch on the rocks.

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The first post of 2008 is here and its a joke, of course. Hope everyone had a good christmas/holiday. Enjoy the first of many Fridays of the year!

A fellow decides to take off early from work and go drinking. He stays until the bar closes at three in the morning, at which time he is extremely pissed. After leaving the bar, he walks home. When he enters his house, he doesn't want to wake his wife, so he takes off his shoes and starts tip-toeing up the stairs. Half-way up the stairs though, he falls over backwards and lands flat on his back. That wouldn't have been so bad, except that he had a half bottle of scotch in his back pocket, and it broke; the broken glass carved up his ass terribly. Yet, he was so drunk that he didn't know he was hurt.

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