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 One speaker has withdrawn.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. […]
Water + missing speakers Read More »
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.
Wireless problem solved Read More »
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
Tuesday – first tuturials for PGCon Read More »
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 more like short periods of slumber interspersed with difficult periods of pain. I spent the morning reconciling about 8 PGCon payments with
Monday – what really happened? Read More »
It has been a week since my last post. I believe I have reasonable reasons for abandoning the blog for that time. Many interesting things happened over the past week. Many good times. When I had three minutes to myself, some event would come back to me and I’d think it blog-worthy. I hope my memory serves me well when it comes time to recount the past week. Tuesday: I picked up Robert
Monday – wrap up Today was a very satisfying day. There were a wide range of problems to be solved and tasks carried out. I’ve talked to my favorite pizza place and they’re doing lunch for Wednesday. A Thai place is doing dinner Wednesday night. Thursday is a box lunch and an Indian sit-down dinner. This will be great food. Oh? What? Yes, the FreeBSD Dev Summit is pretty much good-to-go. So is
It’s now 1726 and it’s been a very busy day. I’ve been to the campus and scouted out some secret hacking lounges. Four of them. This will be good for the beer and pizza sessions we have planned. The PGCon t-shirt has been approved. Complete with deliberately known “error”. You find it. More registrations to reconcile with payments. 13 in fact. Done. Sent out a lightning talks / Work In Progress announcement. Sent
A most busy day it’s been… Read More »
The third Australian speaker for BSDCan is at least now in North America. Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) to be precise. He should be in Ottawa by late morning. I’ve done my email for the day. I left the house at 0715 and its now 0741. I’m not sure what time the medical clinic opens. Their phone number does not give hours. I’ll drive there next.
Sunday – Penguins win game 2! Sunday was busier than I expected. I made it home about 2pm and sat outside with my folks talking to Ted. He’s been our neighbour since I was a teenager and we’ve known him since before that. Some of his daughters had lived in the house before he moved in. I asked Ted about living in Holland during World War 2. His part of Holland, closer to
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