[ from the yet-another-blog-entry dept. ]
I have been busy for the last few weeks but hopefully will have chance to write all about the fascinating things which might have happened. In short I graduated, then bought a bike and started going swimming. I am working most days at the moment and sorting jobs for September.
Graduation photos will be online soon though in the mean time check out Hussein’s Photos.
Jon.
[ from the push-and-shove-time dept. ]
Today is the day of graduation, or alternatively the day before they push us out of the door. “Thanks for feeding the system some cash and now on your bike mate go quick!” – or something to that effect. They will surely start calling and writing to me about donating for future students in time…
…but I may well be back very soon as I have now had several job offers which allow the flexibility to persue a part time PhD course shortly.
Mental note to give pkh and team a bottle of bubbly as a parting gesture and reminder that I am planning to return for some time to come.
Photos later.
Jon.
[ from the yes-that-was-fun dept. ]
I enjoyed going to dfb’s summer BBQ 2003. Random fun and now I am about to be on route to get a train back to Reading in time for work tomorrow. Playing with programmable logic this week.
Jon.
[ from the and-the-order-of-a-large-fries-and-a-burger dept. ]
The new Harry Potter book came out last week. No I have not read it and have no urgent plans to do so. For those who are avidly reading away, and while I have a lot of respect for self made women, J K Rowling and Time Warner are continuing in their bastardisation of international copyrights.
One day when the world has destroyed itself and the bees have taken over, perhaps we might have some sane patents, copyright, laws and corporations.
Jon.
[ from the jcm-anual-bbq-ahead dept. ]
The anual jcm BBQ is next weekend so all friends and family are invited to email me for more information soon.
Jon.
[ from the mr-stabby-mr-stabby dept. ]
Yesterday I went to Linux User & Developer Expo with Tom and jok. The Expo itself was part of a Networking Show and was quite small at that – but nonetheless it was still quite interesting fun.
Extreme Networks had some funky kit but did not want to give me a free shirt…I got a few bits and freebies but on the whole slim pickings. Alan Cox gave a good talk on the Linux Kernel version 2.6 and some Debian guys spoke for a bit too. SGI had an Altix 3000 which was interesting and I might review a unit. Unfortunately the Sun Microsystems stand was a little bare and the other guys
were notably quite absent on the whole – I hope Linux World 2003 Expo will be a more interesting and fulfilling affair.
After the Expo a group of us headed in to Birmingham city centre and ended up in a Weatherspoon’s pub for drinks and food. I met up with some people that I already knew and a few fresh faces – and some interesting fun fotopic.net. Paul had a remote controlled minicar which was driven around the tables and floor before being turned in to Mr. Stabby the Auto-kebab machine.
Jon.
[ from the well-that-is-nice dept. ]
A friendly Vue Webmaster contacted me to say that a non-flash version of the site is under construction and that they appreciate the accessibility needs to the site for all users. They encourage further feedback. That was quite surprising.
Jon.