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At the time of the ApacheCon planning meeting, I was on holidays. Yay, bliss and all that. Anyway, after the meeting, I set about turning the spreadsheet of talks into iCal files, in the hopes of having them ready before the conference Now that speaker notifications have gone out etc, here they are. There’s [...] I was going to write about the barbeque I had yesterday, the two new Irish girls I met who’re living downstairs for the next semester, and how lovely the weather’s been. But it’s gotten cloudy, and I’m majorly pissed off at people who think degrading sexist remarks are ok to make, and people who would rather [...] So, this won’t be one of my usual (!) 1,000 word treatises – I’m writing it on my latest toy, the Palm TX. For this time of day, the airport is incredibly busy – there are queues for everything, moreso than normal, but everything’s moving, it all seems pretty efficient, and I haven’t had the [...] For all you budding parents out there: there’s really no point at which it’s appropriate to tell your daughter that she should have been a boy, unless she is undergoing/has undergone appropriate gender-identity therapy. Buying a penknife, multi-purpose tool, or general gadget, does not mean that your daughter should have been a boy. It means she’s [...] Easter is probably my favourite time of year. It’s a time for thinking, reflecting, but also for celebrating. Whatever you believe in, Spring is a powerful time of year. The days are getting longer, the winter is behind us, flowers, trees, plants are blooming… Last week was stressful, for many people, for many reasons. I [...] The ApacheCon folk have now officially waived my registration, so I’m looking forward to seeing you all in Dublin this June! Now if only they could make it warm and sunny as well Colm and I picked Rich Bowen up from the airport on Friday morning, and thus began a long but fun weekend with the ApacheCon planners. We got him safely to the hotel, by the most circuitous route possible, Colm went back to work, and then Rich and I went walkies, looking for food. By the [...] Today is turning into a truly bizarre day. I’m blogging this, because I suspect that otherwise, I’ll have to write it out several times. In response to the Minister for Health saying that the health service was such a state because consultants were only available 9-5, Dad wrote a letter to the paper last week. He [...] A huge “thank you!” to Sun Microsystems – in particular Damien Farnham (Performance QA) and Conrad Wace – for sponsoring my trip to ApacheCon. My first introduction to the world outside Windows was as a young teenager, spending a full weekend, with my best friend, trying to install RedHat (probably RH5, looking back) onto a [...] |
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