I'm very excited to be attending OSDI 2008 this year in San Diego, CA (Dec 8-10).
There are some really intersting papers on tap--hope to see you there!
I'm also going to attend the First USENIX Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL '08) the day before, on Sunday. There are a huge number of surprisingly interesting issues that emerge related to generating, storing, analyzing, and processing log files (not the least of which is that you can generate terabytes per day without even trying. Now where did that needle go in this haystack again?)