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I’m looking forward to attending ApacheCon US 2009 in Oakland, 2nd-6th November. We’ll be celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation, with more content, more people, and more fun than ever before.

If you’ve ever been to an ApacheCon, you’ll know that there are hundreds of great reasons to go. If you haven’t been [...]

My father has always been difficult to get presents for. If he needs something, he’ll buy it himself. If he knows he wants something, he’ll do the same. He doesn’t have my mother’s love of certain fabrics or patterns, so that we could just keep getting him Portmeirion china every year (sorry mum!)

And [...]

No, it’s not really my birthday. But it’s a year today since Stephen and I moved. It’s been wonderful, horrendous, tiring, invigorating, bizarre and fun.

I’ve gotten used to things I thought I’d never be able to live with, like no shopping on Sundays or at night. I now get irritated by things that were a [...]

I’ve been wondering whether to blog about this. On the one hand, Dave Carroll’s written a song I can’t get out of my head and produced a great video to go with it. On the other, I think he was a complete idiot in not taking out his guitar as soon as he got to [...]

Feb4, originally uploaded by NoirinP.

Self-portrait in the bathroom mirror

Yes mum, I’m still taking photos

Feb24, originally uploaded by NoirinP.

Impromptu party for Pancake Day

Stephen and I threw a last-minute Pancake Day party on Tuesday, and had great fun. We used 3l of milk, 10 eggs, and more than a kilo of flour – all happily devoured by ten hungry engineers

A [...]

Feb14, originally uploaded by NoirinP.

Spork!

For my friends on the Apache helpdesk!

Jan7, originally uploaded by NoirinP.

After feeling awful all day Tuesday, all I wanted by dinner time on Wednesday was serious comfort food… Combine that with what was available in the tiny Migros on the way home, and what we came up with was a very basic, slightly [...]

Jan1, originally uploaded by NoirinP.

2008 was an amazing year, but I have to admit I wasn’t as diligent with the camera as I had been previously. So as the church bells rang to herald in the New Year, I decided to try taking a photo a day, [...]