Kynan is an Australian I work with. He has an Australian flag in his cube, and it seems to me that he’s skirting on the edge of crazy US laws if he happens to move to one of those jurisdictions. I can’t imagine such laws passing in Mountain View, but I figure he deserves the…
10-4 good buddy
10 series radio codes might be dropped from US police lexicon. Seems a shame to me.
Dave and Busters
To celebrate a recent launch the team went out to an “adult arcade” called Dave and Busters today. An adult arcade is pretty much what it sounds like — imagine a huge collection of arcade games, pool tables, bar, and restaurant. I of course had the most American thing I could find, which was a…
MySQL User Camp 2006
I “sort of attended” the MySQL user’s camp on the weekend. More on that later. This blog post from the guy who wrote WordPress makes me think I should have made it to more of the sessions. Oh well.
Mi Pueblo
The phrase “Mi Pueblo” is remarkably over used, which made web surfing for this one hard. For some time, Catherine has been doing some of our food shopping at the little Spanish grocery store in Mountain View. For the first time I went along yesterday (she normally goes when I am at work). Imagine a…
Getting ready to leave Sydney
I haven’t written much about the couple of weeks I’ve spent in Sydney. Nothing really exciting happened, apart from a trip home to see the kids (the Southern Tablelands were greener than I expected), a visit to CLUG another to SLUG, and a lot of time spent eating at restaurants on King Street in Newtown….
Go see the stilty building
If I find myself in New York, New York I should try and see the stilty building of doom, a sky scraper which stands on nine story high stilts so that it could use a site occupied by a church. I can’t work out how to deep link to Flickr images, so click these instead!…
A MythTV Jabber bot
While I love my wife and kids to distraction, the distraction bit is real. Then again, I’m sure they have a counter argument that I tend to end up deep in thought, and which point you could probably push me off my chair and I wouldn’t notice. Anyway, that’s mostly beside the point. What is…
Hypothetically speaking
Hypothetically speaking, if you needed to write a four hour long presentation (probably around 200 slides), shared with another speaker, and wanted to keep the style consistent and conforming with your approved corporate style, how would you do it? I’m thinking of some sort of intermediate language, which can then be used to generate slides…
AUUG 2006 Slack talk
I gave a talk on how Google deploys software configuration to machines at AUUG 2006, and this reminded me to put the slide deck and paper online. So, here they are: slides in PowerPoint and PDF, as well as the conference paper. Update: Now with URLs that are correct! Sorry for the cut and paste…