Tuesday, December 2, 2003
LB/2003 - Day #1
Just got back from LB/2003. Great people, great talks; time well spent. This is my second time at LB (I wasn’t in Bangalore this time last year).
My slides will be online in a couple of days; I’m switching servers this week.
Bangalore is cold. I was wearing three layers of clothes and was still chilled out. By evening I had what felt like a fever, a headache, cough and a sore throat. The ride back home after dinner with![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
bluesmoon and mannu added watery eyes and a jitter that refused me passage over the official speed limit barrier.
Bangalore traffic totally, completely, absolutely sucks. It is the acme, the pinnacle, the apogee of suckiness. But I know I’ll change my mind and call it the same next year.mmk describes it well when he says “the pedestrian art of raising hands to wade through traffic” — I’ve started to indulge in it too.
Tomorrow I’m going to wear gloves, a thick jacket, and Kishore’s helmet (mine is in Goa).
Other notes:
It was great meetingbluesmoon (three years), thaths (two years; no more ponytail; great talk), teemus a.k.a Sumeet “Slipstream/VirusLabs” Mulani (first time), pooja (also first time), and the regular BLUG gang (nearly four months). Did I miss anyone?
Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman practically 0wn the audience when they are on stage. There’s a lot to learn there. Harald Welte, who hacks on the Linux NetFilter (iptables) module, runs Debian PPC on a PowerBook. He says he had an iBook before and has a dual-G4 desktop, but has no experience with Mac OS X. I briefly considered installing Debian PPC on mine just for the hack value, asked if he had ISO images handy (he didn’t), then realised that as a non-kernel-hacker, I had no use for a Linux kernel: all the apps I need run on Darwin anyway (except Mono, which doesn’t support PowerPC yet; I’m going to ask why in Nat and Miguel’s talk tomorrow).
Sirtaj Singh Kang is promising to do a lot of Python in tomorrow’s RAD with KDE talk. Guess where I will be sitting?
My slides will be online in a couple of days; I’m switching servers this week.
Bangalore is cold. I was wearing three layers of clothes and was still chilled out. By evening I had what felt like a fever, a headache, cough and a sore throat. The ride back home after dinner with
bluesmoon and mannu added watery eyes and a jitter that refused me passage over the official speed limit barrier.Bangalore traffic totally, completely, absolutely sucks. It is the acme, the pinnacle, the apogee of suckiness. But I know I’ll change my mind and call it the same next year.
mmk describes it well when he says “the pedestrian art of raising hands to wade through traffic” — I’ve started to indulge in it too.Tomorrow I’m going to wear gloves, a thick jacket, and Kishore’s helmet (mine is in Goa).
Other notes:
It was great meeting
bluesmoon (three years), thaths (two years; no more ponytail; great talk), teemus a.k.a Sumeet “Slipstream/VirusLabs” Mulani (first time), pooja (also first time), and the regular BLUG gang (nearly four months). Did I miss anyone?Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman practically 0wn the audience when they are on stage. There’s a lot to learn there. Harald Welte, who hacks on the Linux NetFilter (iptables) module, runs Debian PPC on a PowerBook. He says he had an iBook before and has a dual-G4 desktop, but has no experience with Mac OS X. I briefly considered installing Debian PPC on mine just for the hack value, asked if he had ISO images handy (he didn’t), then realised that as a non-kernel-hacker, I had no use for a Linux kernel: all the apps I need run on Darwin anyway (except Mono, which doesn’t support PowerPC yet; I’m going to ask why in Nat and Miguel’s talk tomorrow).
Sirtaj Singh Kang is promising to do a lot of Python in tomorrow’s RAD with KDE talk. Guess where I will be sitting?
evan — Dec 2, 2003 5:45:10 PM — # ↩
prady — Dec 2, 2003 10:27:35 PM — # ↩
Kiran Jonnalagadda — Dec 2, 2003 11:29:45 PM — # ↩
thaths — Dec 3, 2003 3:52:50 AM — # ↩
If you are feeling cold, have a sore throat, are coughing... it might not be due to the bangalore weather. Go see a doc. It is prolly some nasty microbe.
Thaths
bluesmoon — Dec 3, 2003 1:16:04 PM — # ↩
dude, you haven't changed one bit from the what you look like in this pic
kaustubhhere — Dec 4, 2003 1:48:36 PM — # ↩