Well Donna’s author copy of her new book,
Everyday Heaven, has arrived! I guess this means it’ll appearing in bookshops soon. 🙂
It’s kind of odd to know that part of your life has been written about and is now out there for anyone to read.
The book is great (I know, I’m biased!) and you can find it at
Amazon.com
The book is, of course, a followup to her best selling autobiography Nobody Nowhere and its sequels
Somebody Somewhere and Like Colour to the Blind.
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..).
OK, it’s not the latest news as I started on the 14th July, but I am now a sysadmin and network admin for
VPAC, the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing. I’m involved in looking after their new
IBM Linux Cluster and the forthcoming connection to GrangeNet.
All good stuff, and very good fun with good people and various other things to use the adjective good with.
Open Source Victoria (OSV) has issued a press release which urges governments to adopt open source document & file formats as well as network protocols.
As a member of OSV I would ask anyone who deals with government bodies to point their contacts towards the press release and especially the methods we advocate to ensure that governments use open formats to promote interoperability and communication.