I’m in Stuttgart for GUADEC and it rocks.
The conference has been a blast (I suspect it will continue to be a blast for the rest of the final day), and I’ve met lots of awesome people.
Plus, I got myself one of the exclusive speakers-only guadec bags. I know you’re jealous.
I leave for GUADEC today.
I’m very excited; not only to I get to go to Europe for the first time
in my life, and do some exploring with my dad, I also get to meet some
good friends that I’ve made over the past year.
Our (father and I) whirlwind airplane tour begins in Halifax,
stops briefly in Boston, [...]
Last night, I had to wear a toque while I mowed the lawn. This weather has got to stop.
I recieved a review copy of
Mono: A Developer’s Notebook
through the
Dal-ACM’s
militant arm, our
own
ORUG.
The review
is now up on the Dal-ACM web site; the short version is that the book is good.
Next on the chopping block is Code Complete. I’m
already a few hundred pages in, and its been great so far. I can’t
wait to find out who the [...]
For years, we Canadians have envied our American neighbors. Our
Mountain Dew was caffine free; theirs was one of the most caffinated
beverages available, second only to
Jolt.
No longer do we have to make expensive trips to the states or pay
dewrunners to haul loads in their boats! Mountain Dew Energy is
now available in stores!
It’s good. It doesn’t taste [...]
I don’t mean to offend with this; frankly I’m happy when someone
reads anything at all. I had hoped to stay out of the Dan Brown thing,
but after seeing
Colin’s post,
and then today seeing a
friend’s MSN name set to something like “Da Vinci Code
movie… unf unf”, it’s time to chime in.
Yes, I’ve read it. I proudly display [...]
Sean pointed out
to me via email that my blog has
been comment spammed. This makes me happy; I’m high enough on the
googles to get noticed by spambots.
The downside is that now I have to deal with it. I think I’ll
evaluate newsbruiser
(as used on GNOME
blogs); it looks like it may have some capabilities for this, and
it’s written [...]
The first CEOS ended last night Friday night.
I had been otherwise occupied for
the days leading up to the conference (and for some of the conference proper),
but the other organizers pulled
off an utterly enjoyable event.
Like Sean, I too enjoyed Billy’s and
Steve’s
talks. Both were to the point and pretty funny. You can tell that
these guys actually [...]
For anyone looking for
Moleskine notebooks
in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, they’re stocking them at Frog Hollow Books. Frog Hollow
doesn’t seem to have a website, so here’s their meatspace location:
Frog Hollow Books Ltd.
5657 Spring Garden Rd.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 3R4
Requisite google maps link: Frog Hollow Books (They’re in Park Lane).
This was another added benefit from the
Install Fest
on Saturday;
CS [...]
Yesterday, we held the
install fest at Dal;
the consensus was that it rocked. We’ll probably hold another one in the
Fall, to get the Dal froshlings using a better OS.
There were computers a-plenty, playstation 2 on the big screen,
and a 1.3Kg bag of M&Ms. I was also introduced to
munchkin, an incredibly
fun card game from
Steve Jackson games, the [...]