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, the waitress gets a very large tip. I will collect from the people in question tomorrow morning. This happens […]
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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 over. One of the two guys appeared much older than most students. Instead, said lunches went to the Ottawa Mission, a much
It is now 1126. Nothing to do but wait for lunch to arrive… sometime soon.
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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 One speaker has withdrawn.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 each confernce. That happened with BSDCan 2007. This repeated with BSDCan 2008 and now with PGCon 2008. No worries.
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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.
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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 payment details if they cannot deal with it directly and then invoice them later. I pushed some BSDCan papers to the
Tuesday – mid morning Read More »
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 speaker and pushed them to the website. I answered a query from a former attendee who could not attend in
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