It's a good weekend for a number of reasons:

• It's a bank holiday
• The snow is finally melting
• Q-Con XX Pre-Registration is open!

Yes, you read that right - you can now pre-register for Q-Con's twentieth birthday party via our Online Registration System (paper and group forms will follow shortly)

If you don't know what IRC is, don't worry - it's a way of hosting online chatrooms that's been around for longer than Q-Con itself but is still going strong!

As part of our website update we've set up a shiny new room on a server called Freenode, which can be accessed by joining #Q-Con in an IRC client or via webchat using this convenient link.