I've just attended a short C BoF at OLS which was a series of questions on what C would do in various tricky situations. I managed to get one of them right and win myself a shiny Google T-shirt. It's the last day of the symposium today and it's finishing …

The conference has been going well. I haven't had much downtime though as the last two nights have had welcoming parties or BoF (Birds of a Feather) sessions. The talks as you might expect have all been quite technical and geeky. Last night was IBM's Cell BoF session which was …

I had a few drinks at the welcome shindig last night but then crashed pretty early (or by my bodies recking, very very late). The first day has been full of some interesting stuff. I've given up on note taking instead preferring to take notes on the laptop. This does …

I'm setup in my home for the next 9 days. It's time to explore Ottawa! It's about 31 degrees at the moment and quite humid so I think I'll go for geek friendly shorts.

Well I'm currently sat in Gatwick looking forward to the fact that smoking indoors will be banned by the time I return to the country. It seems every bar/cafe allows smoking, even the "smoke free" areas have a large amount of bleed through from the smokers. It also seems …