Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
|
|
This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
Older items:
2010: (
J
F
M
),
2009: (
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
),
2008: (
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
),
2006,
2006,
2005,
2004,
2003,
2002,
2001,
2000,
1999,
legacy html
-
Up at 6am, hiked to Preson Park, train to Gatwick, waited
for delayed flight. Extremely impressed with the battery life on
this new Duo (with SSD). Caught up with the news variously.
-
Read Simon's excellent position on contributor
agreements, with relation to the (potentially problematic) Project
Harmony.
-
Highly amused by an article in The Economist on 'the cost
of weapons'. Learned an important new German term: Eierlegende
Wollmilchsau or "egg-producing wool-milk-sow" (apparently this
is the A400M specification) - could there really be engineering and
business problems with a-priori over-specification ? Another
priceless quote:
In Iraq and Afghanistan numbers matter more than
firepower. The same applies to warships fighting pirates off the
coast of Somalia; a ship cannot be in two places at the same time.
As Stalin reputedly said, "Quantity has a quality all of its
own".
-
Read a nice article on gcc
with some helpful reminiscence on the egcs/gcc fork and its
resolution.
-
Arrived at the conference after paying a small fortune
to an evil taxi driver that tried to kill me; with his fake
(home-made?) 'meter' in the taxi; hmm - why does that always
happen to me ?
-
Met up with the lads, out for dinner in the evening; and
back late for more food with Caolan, Thorsten & Kendy. Up late.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
