My roomba tried to commit suicide today.
It managed to line up the two shoes and box you see here trapping itself, then went around in circles until it’s battery died.
Sadly, this Roomba has hated life from the very beginning. The day after I got it, it forced it’s way under my couch scratching it’s self [...]
I had a great time at SCALE, here’s a wrap-up of some of the things that went on:
The first day had two tracks all about open source in healthcare. Speakers included Scott Shreeve (co-founder of Medsphere, and founder of Crossover Health) who gave a very motivating talk about the importance of transparency in healthcare, and [...]
I’m heading down to LA tonight for SCALE, the Southern California Linux Expo. I’ll be volunteering at the GNOME booth in the Exhibition Hall, so if you’re in the area, stop by and say hi!
(All photos credit whoever they link to, I don’t have a working camera right now, sadly.)
Yesterday was opening day for the new South Lake Union Streetcar line in Seattle, WA. This is not to be confused with the first stretch of light rail, scheduled to arrive late 2009.
I met a group of friends downtown at [...]
I’ve been to a lot of conferences over the past few months, here’s a short summary of them:
May ‘07: Toorcon Seattle (BETA)
I wrote a separate post about this, see here.
July ‘07: Ubuntu Live
I took the train down to Portland with Andy, which is so much more enjoyable than flying, I don’t even know where start. [...]
I’ve been working with a few other people to resurrect GSLUG, the Greater Seattle Linux User’s group.
The next meeting is this Saturday (September 1st, 2007) at 12:00pm, here’s the announcement that Ian sent out on the list:
The September 2007, inaugural meeting of the Greater Seattle
Linux Users Group (GSLUG) will be [...]
I’ll be heading down to Portland tomorrow afternoon for Ubuntu Live! and OSCON. I’m really looking forward to meeting up with Chris and Steve, both of whom I haven’t seen in over a year.
Hacking BoF
I’ve organized a “hacking session” BoF at Ubuntu Live, anyone interested in improving Ubuntu and GNOME is invited to attend.
Here’s the [...]
I have a Xen VM set up on my server that I give accounts to friends on, and I thought it would be nice to set up filesystem quotas, so one user couldn’t take down the server for everyone else by filling up the disk.
Enabling quotas is easy, just add usrquota and grpquota to /etc/fstab, [...]
This past weekend was ToorCon Seattle (Beta), a weekend long free & invite-only get together of around 100 security professionals and hackers.
It was a lot of fun!
Talks were on Saturday at the Last Supper Club.
A list including slides are up on the website.
Saturday night’s party was at the Public N3rd Area, which was temporarily converted [...]
Two weeks ago (Monday, March 5th, 2007 - I am obviously a bit late in posting this) Galan, Ben, and I went down to the new Sound Transit Operations & Maintenance Facility for the official dedication and the first public tour.
Seattle has been in great need of a good public transportation system for a long [...]