These Things Matter To Me

UbuntuLive is live!
My talk isn’t until this afternoon, but I want attendees to be able to have access to my slides to take notes on, without having to wait until after the talk.

• .odp slides (Open Office format, edit inside of.)
• .pdf slides (pdf format. Less editing options, but simpler for some.)

Like many slides, they don’t totally stand on their own without the verbal “filler.” I’m making a “prose” version of this presentation at some point to address that

Hey there Ubunteros.

A quick post:

If you’re interested in attending Ubuntu Live, but just haven’t registered because it’s 35% too expensive, have I got a discount code for you!

ubu07ucm

That’s right, ubu07ucm. Use it when you register here.

With O’Reilly’s permission and encouragement, I’m blogging this to encourage your attendance. Of course, if you can’t attend for financial or geographical reasons, O’Reilly always does a great job aggregating blog coverage, session files, pictures, and links so that it can be just as good as attending! If you wait a couple months, even more multipedia coverage eventually trickles in.

More on Ubuntu Live, OSCON, and Portland nerd summer soon!

Just loved.
Looking into my Apache logs tonight, I noticed for the first time, a bunch of Solaris users.
And hey! Requests/ refers from sun.com? For five seconds I got excited by the possibility that somebody from Sun was linking to me. It’s no secret I dig Jonathan Schwartz and and many Sun activities. (But at the same time, I don’t dig Sun’s Java. )

So it was with heavy heart that I realized nobody from Sun was linking to me. They were just embeddeding a gif I have of Tim Oreilly and including it in their blog post. It seems that Tim O’Reilly with a beard reminds some people of actor Dennis Hopper. And this comparison was posted by a JavaOne attendee, which was then aggregated on the JavaOne blog page.

After consultation with an ethicist, I considered my options. Edit the graphic so that my URL would display? No, too stalkerazzi/tmz.com. Change it to a goatse? No, too crass. And besides, the blogger seems really nice, and has a good blog about grid stuff. And his embedding the graphic doesn’t really hurt me. But I had to do just a lil something. So I made a little Javalasses joke on the image, and reuploaded the file.

I hope they keep the graphic up, though. We need more Tim O’Reilly. separated at birth memes! (I also heart Tim.)

PS. Javalasses.