Meet Star. Best described as Not Quite Right, Star’s mother was a feral stray who rejected her as a kitten, (those wacky animals and their maternal instincts, go figure). A firm believer that no kitten should be left behind, my wife assumed custody. We’ve had her for years now. For the most part she keeps to herself. One notable exception to this is bedtime where she demands a prominent position either on or next to my wife....
There are a lot of cats living in and around my house. A lot. When I mention this to people, they invariably want a number, but the truth of the matter is I really don’t know, (if that isn’t the surest indicator of Way Too Many, I don’t know what is). So, I’ve decided to conduct a little experiment. Each day, starting tomorrow, I will profile one cat found living here....
What the hell? I leave for a couple of weeks and return to find my coffee shop all boarded up! Ruta Maya served fair trade coffee, obscure (and often excellent) microbrewed beers, and a tasty (although arguably overpriced) lunch. Add free wifi and the fact that they were basically right across the street from work and you had an excellent “home away from home”. My co-workers and I spent many an afternoon working from what became referred to as the “Martin Street Office”…and now it’s gone....
After 5+ hours on a bus, several hours at Ezeiza airport, and 12 hours on two different planes, I’m back home from Debconf8, (technically speaking I’ve been back since 8am yesterday, but was in no condition to post). Debconf8 was definately the best organized of the 4 Debconfs I’ve attended, and Argentina was an awesome setting, but it is good to be home. Pictures are here or here. Update: I’ve updated the Debconf8 set on Flickr with a panorama of the beach and skyline in front of the conference venue....
15 years ago today, Debian was born.
On Monday I attended Martin Krafft’s talk, Packaging with version control systems. Martin has started a project, coordinated via http://vcs-pkg.org, to explore work patterns for packaging and cross-distro collaboration using distributed version control systems. This is a topic that I’ve spent a fair amount of time on so it was interesting to see Martin’s packaging work flow, and hear him discuss its evolution. Today I attended a Bof organized by Luciano Bello....
Look, a bidet! And I used it!
It’s that time of year again! I’m at the airport soaking up a little free bandwidth (yes, it would seem that San Antonio International finally has free wifi), before boarding a flight to Houston, and then on to Buenos Aires. With the layover in Houston, the four wait before catching the bus to Mar del Plata, and the six hour bus ride itself, I’m looking at a full 24 hours of travel....
I don’t know when this started, but I like it. Taken on I-10 East about 30 miles west of Junction Texas
The Texas Open Source Symposium in San Angelo is a wrap. This was a small one day event in San Angelo organized by Jeremy Fluhmann (who did an excellent job by the way). I rather enjoyed it, and providing that it becomes an annual event (which I understand is the idea), I will certainly try and make it back next year. I gave a talk on Mercurial during the 11:00am slot....