May 2008

It is seven days before the first tutorial for BSDCan. It is 9:44AM. I’ve been up since 7 and doing email since 8:00AM or so. I’ve processed another few registrations that came in overnight. I’ve arranged an ATX power supply for one of the speakers. I’ve also contacted Les Suites to arrange more rooms. I’ve […]

It is now 10:30 PM. I made it to the dinner in reasonable time. It was at the same place as the last time I was out to dinner with this group. Nice Thai on Merivale Road, across from Canadian Tire. After catching up a bit, we headed over to the OCLUG meeting. I saw

I have just finished the first pass of processing BSDCan Registrations. If you are registered, you should have your confirmation now. If you do not, then something has gone wrong. Most likely candidates are: You did not pay You paid, but for some reason I cannot connect your payment with your registration Someone else paid

Since my last post, I have moved from Cora’s to Starbucks. This Starbucks, on Conventry Road, near Canadian Tire, is much nicer than St Laurent. Lately, I have: Reviewed a second set of proofs for the BSDCan t-shirt and the first set of proofs for the PGCon t-shirt. spoken with U of O residence regarding

It is Tuesday morning. One week before the gathering of the early birds for BSDCan 2008. It is 10:30 AM and I’m sitting in Cora’s at St Laurent and Belfast. They have wireless here. And believe me, it smells much better than the Starbucks at St Laurent and Smyth. Saturday night and Sunday night it

I was not feeling good in the morning. I have no idea why, but I had one lousy headache. I felt nauseous and crappy. I stayed in bed and dozed for an hour or two. By 9:30, I got up and had a bit to eat. Still felt bad. I heard from my dad that

It was 5:30 AM when I awoke. No alarm necessary. I just woke up. It was daylight out. I didn’t go back to sleep. So I decided it was time to go. To my surprise, 5 of my neighbours were assembled in a grassy median area just outside my house. On a Sunday morning. I

For several years now, people have been asking me how to run conferences. I keep telling them I don’t know anything about running conferences, but I know what I like to have at conferences I attend, so I just make sure those things are at my conferences. Yes, that’s a rather flippant remark, but much