I like screen oopsies
I've already posted this image today, but it was buried in a bunch of other stuff. Check it out: Funny. Especially given United's terrible check in service.
Perth for a conference
The TOWER Asia-Pacific annual conference is later this week in Perth (Wednesday to Friday). I have a couple of free hours here and there, mostly in the evening. If there is anything interesting happening in Perth later this week, could people drop me a line and let me know? Failing that, if you have a free day in Perth, what would you see? Rottnest Island? [btags:]
The Linux Australia mirroring project
Some of you might be aware that Linux Australia recently agreed to support a trial open source mirror project for Australia. This mirror is being run by a sub-committee of Linux Australia, on hardware owned by Linux Australia. The purpose of this post is to remind people of the project, and give a quick status update. It has to be quick, as I'm really busy this week. Our hardware arrived several weeks ago, and having been kindly configured by Andrew Pollock was ready for deployment about a week ago. This deployment was held up with some illness amongst various players, but the hardware was deployed to the data center last week by Steven Hanley and myself. We're currently finalising network ACLs for the machine before we can work on finishing off the software configuration. At this time I would like to ask for suggestions of projects which would benefit from mirroring. Preferably there would be a clear benefit to the community in Australia from such a mirror, and support from the people being mirrored for the concept. Bandwidth isn't a problem, and disk isn't a big deal as long as the suggestion doesn't need hundreds of gigabytes. I'll keep you…
Pacifying New Orleans
To passify New Orleans they're going to use troops just back from Iraq? I don't know if that is accurate, but it sure sounds like a bad idea. When the Brits sent troops just back from the Falklands into Ireland, it wasn't much fun either. [icbm: home]
Why does every man and his dog put man pages online?
So, I know that I have a few man pages online, but then again I wrote either the code they document, or some of the generation toolchain to create them, so I think that is different. Why does every man and his dog feel that he should put man pages online? It actually makes it really hard to search for things if the first page of Google results are the same man page over and over again from sites who seem to think that they're making a contribution to the community. Are they just doing this to grab some pagerank?
A Saturday ride
This is a boring post, so I'll keep it short. 30.81km, max speed 45.9 km per hour, 1 hour 52 minutes ride time. Around lake Tuggeranong and so forth. [icbm: home]
Hetherington, 82, created Mr Squiggle in 1959 – a decade before men without strings landed on the moon
Mr Squiggle was an ABC created children's character. I certainly remember him... [icbm: work]
Addiction?
I've been feeling agitated all week, and really quite stressed out. This could be because of: The three conference papers i give next week in Perth Including the opening keynote The impending release of the product I work on The two book chapters I am meant to be writing this week The PhD work I am meant to be doing Not spending enough time with the kids or Grant and Lindsay's departure from TOWER HQ yesterday But I've put it down to being because I hadn't been for a bike ride since Saturday, so I just went for a 12.14km, 41 minute, ride around ANU and the edge of the lake. Now I feel better, if more sweaty. [icbm: work]
Average build time for a PC
Is down to four minutes? [icbm: home]
Weekend riding
Not as much riding as I had hoped for over the weekend, as I ended up with yet another headache this afternoon. The frequency of them is decreasing though, so I think I am getting over whatever bug is causing them. Anyways, 12km yesterday -- a ride from Dad's house to my house, and then a couple of test rides when playing with the gears on my brother in law's bike. [icbm: home]