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Island Bay Festival

Well the Island Bay festival has started again, yesterday was the fair and
parade, followed up by bands in the park. Today is beach day which should be
fun too. Ive got to do a little work today but I might go down to watch the
under 10 horsepower boat race, that should be funny.

UPDATE 2006/02/13: Hula Laguna

So I ended up going to the Hula Laguna instead. It was awesome tons of
people and Fat Freddy’s drop were rocking. People were swimming in the
lagoon, and dancing on every available flat surface.

New Comments

Ive tweaked how comments work a little, seems to work ok.

One for the Thumb

Yay! The Steelers won the superbowl and we had a fun party at our house
watching the game. Ill put the photos up later on and put up a link to them.

UPDATE 2006/02/08: Photos

The photos are up here

Going to the Sevens

The Wellington Sevens are on today and
tomorrow. And I’m to cheer for NZ and I think Kenya this year. It should be
a lot of fun, and then we have the Superbowl to watch on Monday (NZ time).
Sporty weekend.

VOIP

So I bought a linksys router off trademe that has to rj11 phone jacks on it
too. Ive gotten it up and working with Broadvoice so I now have a nice
functional phone in my office with a US phone number.

Home again

Well dinner last night with Jon ‘Maddog’ Hall and a couple of others, (its
not often you get to bend the ear of a living legend while eating fish and
chips at cobb and co) and then a helicopter ride this morning with Mark
Shuttleworth, ive arrived back in Wellington rather shellshocked. But with
piles of ideas to try out. I was on TV3 last night, but I have no idea what
I said so if anyone taped it, let me know.

Last day of Conference

Today is the last day of conference, its been fantastic. I found out that
the NSW Judicial Commission are using Koha to run their library. So Koha
helps to run the Australian court system, thats all good. Plus the MySQL
people tracked me down and had a good chat with me about ways to optimise
Koha and tricks for making things run faster using the query cache in tricky
ways. Tomorrow the speakers get a Helicopter ride, then I’m flying back home.

Koha

Well the talk is done

I have given my presentation, and talked to the press, so I thought the
stress was off. But one of the organisers has asked if I mind being on TV so
now im doing that. Im not sure what channel its for, im sure I’ll find out
though. That should be at around 12 today.
Now im off to one of the keynote addresses.

Koha

Talking today

So today I give my talk, but first I apparently have to talk to the media.
Three reporters are coming to interview some of the speakers, and they want
to talk to me. Im actually way more nervous about that, than my talk.

Koha

Linux Conf AU

So next wednesday I’m giving a talk about Koha at the Linux Conference Australia 2006.
Which is actually being held in Dunedin New Zealand. Its going to be a
pretty general talk, as the audience are going to be Linux/FLOSS enthusiasts
rather than Librarians. I plan to cover the history of Koha, and some
anecdotes, and where to from here. So if you are going to be at the
conference, come along and have a listen 🙂

Koha