After landing at just gone 4am today we’re now back at home and catching up with all sorts of things, including a lot of email..
CCGrid 2004 in Chicago was interesting, and we had a really great time in the UK visiting family and friends in a very hectic 6 day visit (including a trip to Norwich!).
But before all that gets written up we need to go shopping!
I’ve been certified!
Er, well, I’ve actually just passed my
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) exam today with a score of 987/1000 which I’m pretty pleased with, especially as I’d convinced myself I’d failed before I saw the printout!
I am now a CCNA.
Ph3Ar my 3l33t Cisc0 Sk1lls – or something.. 🙂
First the big news, my permanent residency for Australia has come through! Hoorah! Donna and I are both happy campers at that news, although it was never really in any doubt as we’ve got plenty of good friends who know us well who were more than happy to say we’re the real deal. I was more worried about the fact that the AFP couldn’t spell my name correctly at first on their certificate and they had to send a new one out pronto with it spelt rite. 🙂
We’re now back online after the web server that runs this site ran out of disk space. This coincided with their (old) MySQL server going belly up and when it was restarted one of the tables for this site was missing and so it all just stopped.
As you can tell I’ve now fixed the problem, now I’ve just got to hope they don’t run out of disk space again!
The new SWAG (South Worcestershire Archaeology Group) website has been set up by Rob, and is now active!
This means I’ve been able to set up redirections to the new SWAG website from the old URL so people going to the old site will automatically get forwarded to the new one.
They’ve just put up a "Selected Finds" page which has pictures of the first Late Mesolithic/early Neolithic materials SWAG have found around Kemerton Camp on Bredon Hill.
I think Rob’s done a good job with the new site and I wish him all the best with it!
Well it’s been a busy time, we’ve been to Adelaide as VPAC sent me to Linux.Conf.Au 2004 which had to be one of the best conferences I’ve ever been to. I don’t seem to have been alone in that, as one of the keynotes (either Maddog or Bdale, can’t remember which now!) said that it had to be one of the top 3 Linux conferences worldwide.
Unfortunately I missed the IPv6 mini-conference that I was meant to attend as I came down with Chickenpox on the Saturday I arrived in Adelaide! Donna looked after me a treat though, dosing me up on vitamin C, Lysine, various multi-vits and keeping the nasty things covered in a gel to help them heal. Thanks to all that I was out of the infectious stage (though I looked a mess) by Wednesday morning and was able to go to the conference proper. The organisers already knew as Donna had gone and registered for me on the Monday morning. I count myself a very lucky man to have Donna for my wife!
Of course, the highlight of the conference was the dunking of Linus Torvalds and a host of speakers for charity. Linus’s dunking alone raised over AU$6000 dollars!
For a brief conference report, read on!
A Happy and Peaceful 2004 to everyone, from us here in Melbourne.
Now for a very quick update : Life’s good! 🙂
Chris + Donna…
Just a quick message to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year, whereever you may be!
Nadolig Llawen!
Chris+Donna
The draft from the October meeting of the Melbourne Consultation on United Nations World Summit on the Information Society has been published. I wasn’t able to make it due to work commitments, sadly.
However, the draft has appeared as a Word document, so as a service to the community I’ve converted into a PDF document using OpenOffice.org 1.1.0.
Click here to go to the converted document.
To find out how to make comments on the document, to find the original document and to read more about this exercise, please read the webpage for the WSIS Consultations at CCNR.
It would appear some Y^$%&($#%& have been forging spam from my email address at csamuel.org.
I use GnuPG to PGP sign all my emails. If you get something from me that isn’t signed with GnuPG then it’s unlikely that I’ve written it.
I don’t spam, I hate spam, and the emails in question have never been near a system I control.
From the headers that I’ve seen they seem to be being sent from an IP address in China (218.11.213.132) belonging to “CHINANET hebei province network” as well as an IP address in Venezuala (200.44.150.90) belonging to CANTV Servicios, Venezuela.
I’ll be taking this up with them when I get back from work.
Where’s a big LART when you need one ?
Just a little announcement – I’m now a permanent employee of VPAC!
Hoorah!
Even got my very own little webpage there (though the link to my personal page isn’t working yet, for some reason..).