Apparently it's been a pretty good day over the water. It's great that the two democratically elected parties have decided to get on with it. Having said that I can't help but feeling a little like the chap on Dateline London who's principle comment was the rest of the UK …

This morning has been mainly about putting off the inevitable. Not only did I watch BSG, 2 episodes of Lost (sorry Andy you need to catch up), and spend a while fiddling with ogmcat to re-blend some mixes onto my portable music player. In the end I couldn't put off …

Of course the down side of being away from your desk for 2 days (plus the time I spent preparing) is the inevitable pile-o-work. Unfortunately it's just been one crisis after another so I haven't really had a nice calm day yet (hence the lateness of posting). In fact I'm …

It all seemed to go surprisingly well. I was preceded by James' rather interesting talk on planning for failure at Google. It was suggested that they might actually have the data to prove if there was a correlation between random data errors and solar flare activity. I wondered if correlating …

So first talk through ran to 18 minutes. Adding in the demo and question time that should fit into the 40 minutes allocated. Of course I'm only slightly concerned by the fact there is no talk in the other stream opposite mine. I think this will probably be the largest …