X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=JanuaryBlog;h=14513855e5165e6ab4a1cc9c935636a8b239966e;hp=9e82bb934ea0daf19d8f97ff746d714214e63b95;hb=d1cf4ba3d8bc4a3a1e4f4986a1ceb80647cb89d5;hpb=213003d18f3935464f37240faeb472a0a4faa5c8 diff --git a/JanuaryBlog b/JanuaryBlog index 9e82bb9..1451385 100644 --- a/JanuaryBlog +++ b/JanuaryBlog @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +The story continues at FebruaryBlog + == Bernie's brain backup for January 2008 == === Sun 27th === @@ -10,7 +12,7 @@ I'll be able to see them again. Not exactly a happy day, you may have guessed. Today, after 22 hours of flight, I started to have visions. At the baggage reclaim, I thought I was talking with the kernel god LinusTorvalds. He said that userspace -is easy and that he cannot exactly agree with some of the choices made in Python. +is easy and that he cannot exactly agree iwith some of the choices made in Python. We'd really get along if it wasn't just a dream :-) Later on, I reached the hotel and got into the elevator with a ginger guy @@ -24,13 +26,20 @@ that looked vaguely familiar. I asked if he was going at LCA. Blink! - -- //Oh, you must be JohnathanCorbet, the editor of LinuxWeeklyNews!// + -- //Oh, you must be JonathanCorbet, the editor of LinuxWeeklyNews!// - //Indeed.// Today was a really exciting day! I needed something like this to compensate, at least partially, for leaving Boston. +---- + +Hi Bernie! Just stepped here looking for the photos of XOs hanging from the ceiling (i wanted to show them to my father) and found you leaving! + +So, have a nice journey, enjoy conf.au and see you soon! + +-- PiroPiro === Sat, 19th === @@ -109,10 +118,10 @@ See the movie: [[OlpcCrank/StephenReillyCranking.mov]]. The guy cranking is DanielDrake, Gentoo kernel maintainer and wireless guru. -[[OlpcCrank/ArjunCrankingSmall.jpg | ArjunSarwal cranking]] -[[OlpcCrank/ArjunCranking2Small.jpg | ArjunSarwal cranking]] -[[OlpcCrank/StephenCrankingSmall.jpg | StephenReilly cranking]] -[[OlpcCrank/StephenCranking2Small.jpg | StephenReilly cranking]] +{{OlpcCrank/ArjunCrankingSmall.jpg | ArjunSarwal cranking}} +{{OlpcCrank/ArjunCranking2Small.jpg | ArjunSarwal cranking}} +{{OlpcCrank/StephenCrankingSmall.jpg | StephenReilly cranking}} +{{OlpcCrank/StephenCranking2Small.jpg | StephenReilly cranking}} Larger versions of these pics are available at OlpcCrank. @@ -121,9 +130,9 @@ Larger versions of these pics are available at OlpcCrank. ==== The little computer that just won't die! ==== OneLaptopPerChild is not enough. There should definitely be -[[OneAmigaPerChild/OneAmigaPerChild | OneAmigaPerChild]]! +{{OneAmigaPerChild/OneAmigaPerChild | OneAmigaPerChild}}! -[[OneAmigaPerChild/OneAmigaPerChildSmaller.jpg]] +{{OneAmigaPerChild/OneAmigaPerChildSmaller.jpg}} Look [[OneAmigaPerChild/OneAmigaPerChild | here]] for additional details. A big thankyou to MicheleConsoleBattilana for providing a free copy of @@ -150,7 +159,7 @@ Today we shipped our machine affected by dlo#5575 (touchpad mostly unfunctional) to Japan for further inspection by ALPS. Just before closing up the plastic case, I've left inside a little fortune cookie for them: -HaikuXoSmall.jpg +{{HaikuXoSmall.jpg}} If you're wondering what it means, it's a piece of japanese poetry called a HaikuPoem. Google for it. @@ -165,11 +174,11 @@ So, Adam, Arjun and myself went to this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Po place, where the famous American poet [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau|Thoreau]] lived in complete isolation for 2 years in a cabin made of wood. -[[WaldenPond1Small.jpg|Arjun (left) and Me (guess who?)]] +{{WaldenPond1Small.jpg|Arjun (left) and Me (guess who?)}} On this very nice lake, I stupdily tried to run on the ice and fell badly, hitting my jaw and cheek on the hard ice. Little cut, big bump... no permanent consequences. Maybe I should consider a health insurance? -[[WaldenPond2Small.jpg|Me (the really crazy one) and Adam (the really worried one)]] -[[ThoreauCabinSmall.jpg|The there of us in the site of Thoreau's cabin]] +{{WaldenPond2Small.jpg|Me (the really crazy one) and Adam (the really worried one)}} +{{ThoreauCabinSmall.jpg|The three of us in the site of Thoreau's cabin}}