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Berkeley Blogger Dinner The second attempt. A great huge open space absolutely as convenient as you can get, diagonally across the street from the Berkeley BART station. The food was good, the mechanics of service needs work. The now transient Dave Winer talked about the successes of the Blogger's Dinners in Cambridge, MA and invited one and all to come together and create that kind of positive energy. He told us he's happy in Berkeley and we can hope he'll find a happy home there (here). Symas was incubated in Berkeley. It's a good place for thinking and exploring. There were a more experienced bloggers than those looking for help. Many were from Berkeley. There was a community of non-bloggers who didn't seem that interested in blogging, a curious situation. And there were a few looking for help who seemed to be getting their questions answered. Most interesting: Donovan Watts and Obadiah Greenberg. Donovan's Thoughtcasts are intriguing. Obadiah and Cal are putting up tons of complete courses in a podcast (and lectures), not just a few prestigious lectures like Stanford (so far). I hope we'll all get invited to come together again. Many of the bloggers I spoke with expressed happiness with the event and hope for more. Don't assume it's your fault. On the support call, we thought it was a known problem in our package. They very well may have screwed up the configuration files. Our IT world is simply too complicated. It took smart people hours to figure it out (if we have yet). Is it possible that one of the outcomes of the fierce independence of the Open Source Software movement is a lack of common administrative assumptions and approaches? That'll be a tough cultural point to make. SGI Dire warnings to investers. The Register reported on it in their long string of dire warnings of the imminent demize of SGI. The night is darkest before ... whatever. The financiers among us speculate this kills off business in the pipeline and forces them into Chapter 11. Of course, Chapter 11 can be helpful (United Airlines) or devastating. We still love that Altix. It's a killer machine, especially for OpenLDAP/CDS. This is not new news. Someone out there loves that machine as much as we do and it will be snapped up. It's too good a machine to just let it disappear. Ooof. I am as overweight as I feared. Went out and bought a Conair digital scale to replace the old inaccurate one in the bathroom. It was the better of two in the drug store and still under $30 (before tax, of course). I haven't been this heavy since Wisconsin in the early 70s, over 30 years ago. In 1976 I lost over 50 pounds and kept it off until a while ago. Well, here we go again. Today The virtual rowboat went 5595 meters in 30 minutes. That put me up from 123rd in age group in the country to 117th. Fed the Boyz (the Berners) again this AM. It throws the morning ritual off to run over and back but she had a great trip, so it was worth it. |
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