Life is so good, it gets better every day

Keeping My Head Down

It’s been a busy couple of weeks work wise. While most of stuff inside has been relatively plain sailing, I’m still stuck in the middle of paper review for linux.conf.au. There has been some stunning proposals for the conference, and looking forward to it already. The less exciting thing is the 300+ proposals that I’m having to review as part of a wider review team. Heading over to Sydney for a short weekend to meet up with the guys and girls to come up with a kick ass schedule – I imagine there will be beer involved. Start making your LCA plans now!

Small Foster

Hooray! Tim’s now a father, Bob’s a mother, and consequently I am now an uncle. Congratulations to them, and very happy that everyone is doing well over there. Difficult to be a hundred billion miles away, but looking forward to seeing the pictures and skype webcams over the next couple of weeks. Have booked flights to Dublin for Duncan’s wedding in December – good times.

DTrace

Man, twice in a single day that I’ve been totally impressed with DTrace, and two posts from Brendan –

• A proposal for a DTrace Network Provider, net, so you can do funky things like –

  # dtrace -n 'tcp:::receive /args[2]->tcp_dport == 80/ {
          @pkts[args[1]->ip_daddr] = count();
  }'
  dtrace: description 'tcp:::receive' matched 1 probe
  ^C
  
    192.168.1.8                                                       9
    fe80::214:4fff:fe3b:76c8                                         12
    192.168.1.51                                                     32
    10.1.70.16                                                       83
    192.168.7.3                                                     121
    192.168.101.101                                                 192
  

• DTrace meets Javascript, building on top of the Spider Monkey JavaScript Engine.

All hail Brendan, new overlord of DTrace! Rad!

Wakey Wakey

Dear Planet GNOME [stop]
Please pay special attention today to Jeff’s blog [stop]
We have jack all submissions from the GNOME project [stop]
It’s making me cry because I’m on the paper review committee and can’t understand any of the other presentations I have to review and I already have an inferiority complex [stop]
P.S. Same message applies to Planet OpenSolaris and PlanetSun

Update: Of course, any good submissions to the main programme may entitle you to some travel sponsorship..

Boarding Nearly Over

So the winter season is drawing to a close, and there have been really fun times, with fun people [Patrick, Dave, Heidi, Nick, Graham, Myra, Michelle, and Jayne], and some of their blogs give a much better account of how the season went. In short, my boarding has improved a lot, having previously had a half a dozen visits 2 years previously. I’m digging it, pushing myself a little more, and feeling like I’m slowly getting enough ability to be able to start playing around on some jumps a little more. Last weekend we had a whiteout at Cragieburn, but some super slushy snow fun, and then a monster day at Porter Heights with some beautiful blue skies, and ball grabbing moments on Big Moma, a rather steep double black diamond run (WTF was I thinking?). Thanks guys, it’s been awesome!

The following image [thanks to Myra for all of them], says it all really –