With the summer holidays in this part of the world pretty much over, our kids are going back to school. With a bit of luck you still have a job, and professional development is a good thing! Open Query is keeping its training prices as-is -affordable- and you can, as always, sign up for individual [...]
Dated Computer Ads For Your Perusal and Mockery
Aka Arjen’s head So this was at the conference dinner of Linux.conf.au 2009 in Hobart Tasmania. There’s always at least one auction, and for some reason it has become tradition to a) bundle in extras with the original auction item and b) for some of those extras to involve removal of facial hair. As described [...]
I’m staying at the campus (student) accomodation, which is fab, people call it “5 star student accomodation”. We did two dinners in our full kitchen, pasta Sunday night, and Indian curries on Tuesday. The swag is cool too: a simple calico bag, a deck of cards (Tux backed), a Tassie picture Rubik cube; all fun [...]
After a long but nice ferry trip (9hrs) from Port Melbourne, quick pizza dinner and another 3hrs or so drive from Devonport, we arrived in Hobart late last night (Hobart is located on the Southern coast of Tasmania). For some reason pretty much all accomodation was booked out for that one night, but one of [...]
Today I flew down to Melbourne. But hang on, isn’t LCA in Tassie this year? Yep! So, tonight I’m staying at Jonathan Oxer‘s place, and we’re driving his incrementally non-standard RX-8 to the Melbourne-Devonport ferry and on to Hobart.
Well I’ve been back for nearly a week already… happy New Year everybody! I am happy to note that Open Query business continued as normal while I was not around; delegation to capable co-workers is a great thing (I’ll admit to checking in on things while in Europe, but that’s about it – had a [...]