It’s been an interesting week. Over the past week:
- I completed several chapters of my book.
- I signed a contract of employment with a large Linux vendor.
- I resigned from my job[0].
- I sent off the paperwork for my visa.
- Did some planning for the conference and for FOSDEM.
- Bought several books – including two on moving to the US.
- Bought some technology – including another iPod cable.
- Finally committed to getting rid of some redundant technology, and consolidating the stuff I have here into a more manageable quantity of reasonable kit.
- I hacked up some MTD code, played with OProfile, wrote some examples, discovered a few bugs, etc.
I also just got the guys at Advogato to sort out the login for my account over there (I last tried to get them to fix it back in 2004). Goodness, I used to be a much more pessimistic person back then. I’m still bothered by issues like randomly dying, but a better solution is to be successful enough to find a technological solution to that (I don’t believe I’m going to la la land). I’m probably even more opposed to organised religion than I was then, though I respect the right for others to believe they do good things that they do because they were told to rather than just because they happen to be a nice person.
Tonight, I went to see Final Destination 3 with Hussein. The movie was as crap as you’d expect, but still somehow enjoyable. If you’re at a loose end, or just keen to do something with a friend – then go see it. I’m up writing on the book at the moment, taking too much time out to write on this blog, but that’s life. I spent a while figuring out why cxoffice was broken earlier (very annoying – no OSX isn’t better, but Linux software really should always tell you why it’s failing) and had had a few cups of tea (in fact, I had breakfast at 03:00 this morning again). I’m going to make some progress today if it kills me – and if it does, tough. I’ll get it done anyway.
I’ll be hanging around Oxford on Thursday (I offered to help a friend out with some embedded problems in exchange for a curry and a chat) and now expect to swing by Cambridge sometime next month, probably after I get back from a couple of days/weeks in Germany.
Jon.
P.S. I think I now officially want to take up sailing again. I’ve become quite interested in one day having a cutter ship of my own – I’d call it the Cutty Sark and sail on the high seas. Ooooh Arrrrh!
[0] Which means working less with MVL and DevRocket. I’ll probably now buy an ML403 to hack on in my spare time, in addition to getting more involved in other cool projects.