I’m watching the CFQ IO Scheduler talk now on MythTV using my MythTV program downloader thingie. Beware the very large audio volume jump about three minutes in. Just saying.
Oh, and the “pan across blank blackboards for a bit at a funny angle” thing at around 6 minutes is pretty amusing too.
Update: now with working URL for the downloader thingie!
Heh, the LCA2007 planet is running in a timezone offset from Sydney time by one hour. I wonder how many people that will confuse? Oh, and holy crap does it aggregate quickly.
I “sort of attended” the MySQL user’s camp on the weekend. More on that later. This blog post from the guy who wrote WordPress makes me think I should have made it to more of the sessions. Oh well.
Hypothetically speaking, if you needed to write a four hour long presentation (probably around 200 slides), shared with another speaker, and wanted to keep the style consistent and conforming with your approved corporate style, how would you do it?
I’m thinking of some sort of intermediate language, which can then be used to generate slides from a template? Is there anything like that out there?
There seems to have been some controversy over the future of AUUG, mainly caused by delays in organising some aspects of the conference, and Greg Lehey sending some email asking if it is time to wind up AUUG. I thought I should just post and say that I am speaking at AUUG 2006 and certainly intend to attend.
Forbes has a nice write up of Sci Foo 06:
Many of the SciFoo “campers” were the people that other conferences are built around: Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW – news – people ) and inventor of Berkeley UNIX; Danny Hillis, co-founder of Thinking Machines, one of the first massively parallel supercomputers; Esther Dyson, long-time technology pundit and now venture capitalist; the Google duo, Larry and Sergey, along with their new compatriot, Larry Brilliant, who helped squash smallpox and is now running the billion-dollar Google Foundation; and Donald Hopkins, who directs health programs at the Carter Center and is leading the fight to eradicate guinea worm disease.
The first Science Foo camp is being hosted by O’Reilly, Nature Magazine, and Google. I’m going and I am excited like other people.
