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 sponsor, found out […]
PGCon – tutorials: day 2 + registration at the pub Read More »
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
End of Day 1 – Tutorials Read More »
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
It is now 1126. Nothing to do but wait for lunch to arrive… sometime soon.
Just waiting for lunch Read More »
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 One speaker has withdrawn.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
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
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
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
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