Author name: Dan Langille

Thursday – wrapup It is now 2224. I’m in bed. Detroit beat Dallas. Significantly. After leaving Starbucks, St Laurent, I head downtown for the OCUUG meeting. St Laurent you say? Yes. I was at Elmvale Acres shopping center getting my watch fixed. One of the strap pins was loose and the watch kept falling off. It has also needed a new battery for perhaps a year. For the past two days, it displayed […]

It is now 1642. Lately I have printed badges and invoices for both BSDCan and PGCon. More will be printed later, but this is the bulk of the printing. I’ve been proofing more prints for the PGCon t-shirt. Processed more registrations and payments. Ran to Walmart to purchase some paper for the printer. I struggled with printing badges because of paper jams. Eventually I used the side-feed instead of the paper tray. Things

I was awoken today at 4 AM by a truck reversing. You know those lovely beeping sounds. Hmm. And this was with earplugs. It was loud. By 7 AM, I was in my car on the way to my “office”. So far, I’ve managed to send off a letter of invitation to Australia and another to Texas, check some email, and get started on my list of tasks. I have some PostgreSQL Developer

I picked up Eric at his office on the way home. He and I caught up on the trip along March Road to his place. Then he got on his home computer to continue his work day and I got on my laptop to catch up on more registrations. I noticed that more PGCon registrations are flowing in and so are more for BSDCan. Diane Bruce send me some PNG files which will

I’m now at Eric’s for dinner. Leisa will be home after a meeting. The kids are upstairs on their computers. It’s 1631 as I type this. After my last entry, I headed out to Barrhaven to pick up mail at the Greenbank location. I had quite a bit waiting for me. The UPS Store staff are so good to me. They earn their money and I get very good value from it. Having

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 made dinner arrangments for tonight. I’ve emailed the BSDCan announce mailing list letting them know it’s one week

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 a number of people I had not seen since May 2007. Two hours later, the meeting broke up

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 for you, and I cannot connect that payment with your registration If you have not seen a BSDCan

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 24 rooms for PGCan each of which has only 1 person in it Emailed the PGCon mailing list

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 smelled like wet dog, but worse. On Saturday night I thought it was just me. But the same