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Day three of YAPC
Day three of YAPC, and I'm attending Ingy's talk on YAML. The hecklers in the crowd just received one of the two microphones - they've received official status ( Read more... ) -
git
I am attending Jesse Vincent's talk on SD, a distributed bug tracker. In his talk, he just made a joke about git's manual pages ( Read more... ) -
YAPC::NA, day two
Day two of YAPC is starting. I'm currently enjoying Matt Trout talking about DBIx::Class, and today looks like a full schedule of interesting talks ( Read more... ) -
YAPC::NA 10
I'm in Pittsburgh today and through Wednesday, for the YAPC::NA 10 (the NA Perl conference). Larry Wall is about to start his keynote ( Read more... ) -
Ozric
I saw the Ozric Tentacles play at yesterday - nicely timed for the summer solstice. The show was excellent - the band was in good form, played old ands new songs, and appeared to have as good a time as the audience. I have listened to their albums and live recordings for years, but now have a new appreciation for how the band works - it's good to ( Read more... ) -
Breakfast with the dinosaurs
Yesterday morning, the museum of Natural History had a member's breakfast in the museum. The tables with coffee, muffins and bagels were set up in the hall of Saurischian dinosaurs. That was unexpectedly good fun. There were no tours (that's generally an evening thing), but I did get to see the Extreme Mammals exhibit ( Read more... ) -
San Francisco
Heidi and I are in San Francisco for four days to attend a friend's wedding. Our schedule is quite full, but I have two mornings free ( Read more... ) -
Off to Norway
Heidi and I are off on a two-week trip to Norway. One of her CSI friends, a Norwegian detective, is getting married ( Read more... ) -
Dreaming of the lost Iain Banks novel
I had a really weird dream last night. I was convinced there was an Iain Banks novel that I used to own, but that gotten lost when I moved from Europe to the US ten years ago. Not just that, but it was a great novel and I really felt an urgent need to re-read it. (It is far from clear to me why I hadn't missed it in the last ten years, but that' ( Read more... ) -
Biking in late December
We have not been out biking for about two months, as it was just too cold. Well, today wasn't - last week we had snow, we're expected to have snow on Wednesday, but today it was in the mid-60s. This is about 25 degrees above average - good there's no such thing as global warming, eh ( Read more... )