Eric Garay

If you’re in to attending some decent LAN parties, you might want to hit Infernalan. Check out http://lanfest.intel.com/ for the forum and to register. It’s a healthy 300 seat charity LAN event!

Before you go off thinking it’s another LAN, they do give away about a dozen of their best processors and motherboards in random raffle drawings. They’ll raffle off any major component a PC can use as well. And if your PC is “teh suck” all together, they have been known to raffle off a couple complete game systems from IBuyPower and Alienware.

And there’s a $1500 computer case mod contest at the upcoming March 27-29 LAN sponsored by CPU Magazine. As long as it’s recognizable as a computer, you should be just fine. Plus it’ll show up in the next CPU Magazine issue. Can you Dremel up something by the end of next month?

Here are just a few of the sponsors. All proceeds from the event are matched by Intel and donated to the United Way. So, in a sense, while you’re having some fun playing video games, someone somewhere in the immediate future will receive a helping hand thanks to everyone.

I’ve decided it’s time to share what’s going on in the tech industry with my friends and colleagues. Sure, we see all the fancy marketing and hype associated with every new thing designed to tempt us of our hard earned cash. But, does marketing see the same world? Some where in all this hype, reality is happening. Just maybe, I can help bring a little order to the choas.