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Wednesday ends…

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

It is now 10:02pm. I’m home.
After my last post, I went down to the Yahoo! sponsored event. The place was packed. All the free drink tickets were gone. I was too late for that.
I did get a ticket for the Wii raffle. I didn’t win.
I had a beer. Talked […]

PGCon - tutorials: day 2 + registration at the pub

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

This morning I awoke at about 7am and left the house about 8am. A stop at Starbucks and I was down at the Tutorial location by 8:15.
First major problem. Signage. A sign was left in the tutorial room over night and it was not there in the morning. I contacted the […]

End of Day 1 - Tutorials

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

It is now 9:43 PM. I’ve just arrived home after signing the contract for the PG Dev Summit tomorrow morning. The sponsor will reimburse me later.
I spent 4:30-8:45 PM at the Royal Oak conversing with the various attendees.
I paid the bills of two people who forgot to pay their bills. With this, […]

Package pickup

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Today at lunch we had two scavengers. They boldly walked up to the table, took three lunches and walked out the front door. I got the first guy before he left the buildling. The second guy was caught just outside the front doors. Their only comment: we thought they were left […]

Just waiting for lunch

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

It is now 1126. Nothing to do but wait for lunch to arrive… sometime soon.

Water + missing speakers

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

We just had a break. We had no water. I ordered it and had it added to tomorrow’s delivery.
One speaker has withdrawn. He did not yet have a visa. As of two weeks ago, he also did not have a plane ticket.
History shows that I should expect one speaker to withdraw from […]

Wireless problem solved

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The wireless problem was not unique to us. The whole campus was affected. It seems the master controller for the university wireless network was malfunctioning. They’d been looking for this problem for a while.
We speculate that this problem was the one we saw at BSDCan on Saturday.

Tuesday - mid morning

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

I’ve heard from the hotel which will be hosting the PostgreSQL Dev Summit tomorrow. We made some final arrangements (food, drinnk, times, payment) and we’ll be in touch again later today to finalize things. I emailed the Sponsor of the Summit and passed on the details. I will take care of the […]

Tuesday - first tuturials for PGCon

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Today is the first day of PGCon Tutorials. I was out of the house by about 7am and settled in at Cora’s for breakfast 10 minutes later. They have free wireless there.
First order of the day, apart from OJ and Yoghurt Harvest Crunch, was email. I uploaded some slides from a BSDCan […]

Monday - what really happened?

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Today was the first day I stayed in bed past 8AM since I arrived in Ottawa two weeks ago. It was also the first night I’ve had more than 7 hours sleep. I am not counting the time spent sick in bed just before BSDCan. That wasn’t really sleeping. It was […]