If you live anywhere around Memphis, be sure to be there on November 10. That is when the Memphis Day of .NET is scheduled. It was just announced today that Charles Petzold will be delivering the keynote as well!
Manual testing is immoral. Not only is it high stress, tedious, and error prone; it's just wrong to turn humans into machines. If you can write a script for a test procedure, then you can write a program to execute that procedure.