• Appears that #Oracle have changed their mind and will have a small booth at #SC10 http://bit.ly/czVcTL (via @insidehpc) #
• Nicaragua blames Google Maps error for invading Costa Rica "accidentally" http://bit.ly/c5DZe1 via @fooishbar #
• If you ever wondered what a comet looks like then here's the answer, courtesy of #NASA @apod: http://bit.ly/bN3qP1 #
• Avoiding last minute packing for #SC10 by packing 2 nights before. Inevitably will mean repacking at last minute. 🙂 #
• In the ice cream? RT @BreakingNews Qantas A380's will remain grounded after engine oil is found 'where oil shouldn't be’ #
• "enforcement of geographical indications (GIs)" in next #ACTA round http://bit.ly/aX0NVG – via @NewtonMark @glynmoody #
• Thunderbird just popped up a window to remind me of 0 upcoming events. Sounds like my memory.. 😉 #
• Interesting tool to do data mining of benchmarks – http://perfbase.tigris.org/ #hpc #
• Nice news item from Nature about some of the issues around scientific software http://bit.ly/9ONrHo #hpc (via @mage0r) #
• Blog: Celebration of Anne McDonald’s Life, St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne – Saturday 13th November http://bit.ly/9W8qnr #
• Bemused about proposed #btrfs patches with names like "fail if we try to use hole punch" – is paper tape back ? #
• if (!path || !(foo % 1000)) return -ENOMEM /* Evil debugging trick from #btrfs mailing list – fail every 1,000 calls */ #
• "We have a confirmed and reproducible case where the transparent
  hugepages are corrupting #btrfs (and only btrfs)" #patches #
• NB: transparent hugepages is an external patch set in development, not in the mainline kernel, so don't panic #btrfs #
• There will be a #Torque BOF at #SC10 on Wednesday 17th at 5:30pm in 278-279 http://bit.ly/byrUFh #hpc #
• Sigh, just had to move all my #SC10 events in @googlecalendar because it lied about what timezone it was using 🙁 #fail #
• Remember I said that Kontact in #KDE 4.5.3 could access @Twitter RSS feeds? Well Twitter fixed it, it's broken again 🙁 #
• Time to sign off – straight to MEL in the morning for QF93 to LAX, overnight there and then on UA202 to MSY for #SC10 #
• about to leave on qf93 #
• Arrived safely in LA, overnight here and then onto New Orleans for #SC10 #
• Sigh, can't believe that #KDE doesn't have SOCKS support, I wish I was a real programmer so I could fix it… 🙁 #
• I wonder how long an edit to the "support" #Lustre wiki page noting other companies that offered support would survive ? #
• Los Angeles Sunset http://twitpic.com/363001 #Nature #
• Gordy at sunset http://twitpic.com/36307x #Nature #Friends #
• Arrived in New Orleans safely, ready to go and register for #SC10 tomorrow! Hotel internet is a bit of a puzzle though! #
• Internet at Westin says 1 week+2MB for $40 or 1 day+3MB for $12, decided to risk it and tried a day; 42MB so far so good! #
• Time to head off for #SC10 registration and go and see if I can find any of the #VPAC people at their booth! #
• VPAC booth #2501 at #SC10 in New Orleans http://twitpic.com/36jhid #SC10 #

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