You should go read this, just in case your day hasn’t had enough Brecht, Marx, Knuth, Locke, Deleuze, Stroustrop (as Dr. Frankenstein), Kant, and Stallman. Also, you should read it because you’ve never before read a play where Emacs and The GPL have speaking parts.
Still a little jetlagged, didn’t fall asleep until 6am.
I slept in my own bed last night, yay.
Whipped up a quick page to document various tools for GNOME Power Users. If you know of such things, add them- the page has already pointed me at BrightSide, which I’d never heard of before. In 2.12, we’re going to remove the ‘open terminal’ option from nautilus, [...]
During my talk on Saturday (which I’ve now added to tieguy.org/talks/ under ‘why everyone needs a bugmaster’ (I really need to combine the three bugzilla talks on that page into one big bugzilla best-practices manual)), I mentioned that the kernel adopting debbugs would make the baby jesus cry. This evening, I tried to use the [...]
Had a really spectacular day just reading and writing in the Sydney Botanical Gardens, for something like 5-6 hours. I think I could really live in this city, especially if there was some reasonable possibility to live within an easy walk or train ride of the Gardens.
Opera House from just short of Mrs. Macquarie’s Chair, [...]
Have finally bought my tickets to GUADEC. Yay. Sadly, after some consideration, I’ve decided not to go to guadec-es- I’m just feeling really beat up right now, have still basically 4-5 more days before I sleep in my own bed, and within a couple weeks I’m on the road again to meet my mother and [...]
The phrase ‘enterprise software’ gives me hives right now, basically. This thought on enterprise software (the comment, not the original post), which talks about enterprise software being almost more a state of mind than a technical quality, is the first thing I’ve seen that gives me some of the tools to express my unease. I’ll [...]
The OLS Desktopcon CFP is closing soon; it should be an interesting experiment. Please submit papers if you have some time to spare that time of year.
Elijah: 2.x has a lot of legs left in it; lots of people are happy with it, but ‘m sure people will be using it (and even hacking on [...]
Couple LCA notes:
This is just a very well run conference, it seems, particularly for speakers. We’re treated well and tonight’s dinner was no exception.
The marketing BOF was a success, from my point of view, at any rate. There was very little structure- just a review of some key points, shutting up the Usual Suspects (including [...]
I’m settling in at LCA; Australia has been totally awesome and LCA appears to be continuing that plan. Miniconf has been fun so far, despite my entirely boring talk.
Off the Great Ocean Road outside of Melbourne.
Beauuuutiful.
Almost ran over a kangaroo on the way home from dinner. Met Pia last weekend, finally. Against all odds, I think Jeff finally did something right. :) All in all, really enjoying our trip. More when I have a reliable (read: non-satellite) connection…