My favorite event of the year is the Game Developers’ Conference. This is the gathering of the nerds who create the games. E3, later in the year, is the party of the sales and marketing people. E3 is great fun as well, but it is here at GDC that I actually have a chance to meet people and talk.
I’d promised more details about the trip earlier, but they’ve really become fodder for my professional blog. You can find the finer points about Bioware’s localization presentation here, my mini-presentation on the business of localization here and comments about Google’s Android phone give-away here. Oh, and don’t miss the highlight of the whole show — flying the AR Drone here. 
In general, though, it’s a good time to visit San Francisco, and see friends Jack, Dan, Hongli and the kids. It’s a long time to be away from Gabi and my kids, but they survived. And it’s always great coming home again.
