It’s almost the end of financial year in Australia, so what better time to take stock? I’m actually a bit surprised at just how much I need to do that — I knew being DPL would involve some new challenges, but it’s barely two months in and I’m already just about in shock. Guess it […]
Today’s news: I’m now a scary biker type person, just like Martin, Michael, David, Bruce, and James along with once and future bikers like Sarah or Pia, but only dreaming of approaching the glory days of the munificent Greg. As of yesterday, my ride is a gorgeous blue 2005-model Honda VTR250, picked up from the […]
Who would have thought this would turn out to be one of the better DPL portraits from DC6?
My first blog post after winning the Debian Project Leader election. Scary. Links so far: debian-project, Slashdot, ZDNet Australia. I’m trying to make sure I’ve got something vaguely new to say before replying to press requests, and to also make sure I say anything new on some Debian forum first, and given there’s one I’m […]
Via tha ABC: Queensland’s Police and Corrective Services Minister Judy Spence […] told Parliament […] “Palmer and Comrie got it right, the Department of Immigration is unwilling to review and reform itself and it isn’t helped by an incompetent and indolent minister who isn’t willing to push these reforms.” So today’s award for the promotion […]
Like last year I thought I might blog some random thoughts on the DPL campaign from the last few weeks. Since there’s already the platforms to read, not to mention the debate, and the various mails to the debian-vote mailing list, I’ll add a fold to make it easy to skip. One thing which seemed […]
I sent in my vote for the DPL election. Fortunately, devotee was written by Manoj, not me, so the response I got back didn’t look like this: You voted, yeah, yeah, yeah You voted, yeah, yeah, yeah You voted, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…. Well, I thought you’d miss the vote, But your ballot came today! […]
So with the rebuttals up for the DPL campaign, it’s as good a time as any to post the couple of drafts I had that didn’t make it into mine: First, Ode to Zeke: Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? I’ve been with Ari, he bought me some cream! Pussycat, pussycat, are you sure that […]
Joey replies to my post from yesterday with his own example of leaving: The technical details remain as irrelivant today as they were at the time, the relevant problem being that developers who are not involved in the installer development rarely consider how their actions can affect it. When a policy gets int the way […]
Back in September last year I blogged on #debian-tech, a new IRC channel for discussing Debian, but with a charter and some ops with a mandate to enforce it. At the time I wrote: It’ll probably be quite a bit different from #debian-devel on either OFTC or FreeNode; hopefully that’ll turn out to be in […]
Item one: debbugs has moved from CVS to bzr. Item two: it’s well past time I came out in support of Mary Gardiner’s brief guide on pronouncing “bzr”. Item three: don’t you find the Sugababes’ latest pop ditty really quite catchy? Put them all together, and what do you get? Hit the bzr I’m busy […]
Apparently a week’s mail is a 166MB these days for me; I may be on too many lists. In the past week, 1.9kB of that mail were a couple of missives from Charles Plessy, related to one of my blog posts from last month. Apparently he’s embarassed at being associated with what he wrote, and […]
Probably the thing I most love about linux.conf.au is that every year is an experiment. In 2001 we changed its name, location and time, in 2002 we tried moving it outside Sydney and Melbourne and extended the programme to cover Monday and Tuesday, in 2003 we moved it to the furthest capital we could find […]
Well, actually that confuses cause and effect. Anyway, a draft of the GPLv3 is out, and, at least at first glance I’m pretty impressed. Let’s add a break, since probably everyone’ll be throwing their two cents in soon enough anyway. The GFDL’s problems don’t seem to be present, happuly: the DRM restrictions are limited to […]
Things I did today: 1. Found a t-shirt I’d forgotten buying! 2. Removed the empty SuperH architecture from the archive (binary-sh). Coincidence? You decide.