Here’s the talk in all its nervousness. Please be gentle with me. I do like that O’Reilly had my actual talk proposal up on its site here. I hope people don’t start believing that my friend Mark is mean to animals just because his name and “drown” and “cat” exist in the same sentence in [...]
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I was in a keynote, for realz
Gillian Gunson, originally uploaded by O’Reilly Conferences. I had thought the worst case scenario for my Ignite talk last night would be that I’d pee myself. It turns out that I don’t have much of an imagination, because the real worst thing would be that they liked my talk and were making me do it [...]
You know that saying about doing something you’re scared of every day?
Well, I’m scared every day about something I’m doing next week, is that good enough? I’m going to be doing an Ignite talk at the MySQL Conference on the Wednesday evening. Exactly 5 minutes long, where I have 20 slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. Oh dear. I haven’t done a presentation since university, [...]
In airport security
So I was at the Vancouver airport yesterday and had a rather interesting experience in security. Luckily it had nothing to do with drugs or weapons or cavity searches, though those might’ve made for a better story. No, I got through the check just fine. I was grabbing my jacket and bags when a female [...]
Praise for the idiot bike thieves
who park the bike they stole from you a block away from your apartment. And leave your lock still in its holder on the bike while using their own inferior lock that your building manager is able to cut through in a couple minutes. I didn’t yet have the serial number for the bike (discovering [...]
A special place in hell
There needs to be one for bicycle thieves. Last night my belief in the goodness of mankind was castrated by the discovery of my bike no longer being where I last put it. I am really upset at this. People seem to understand being upset about one’s bike being stolen but when I tell them [...]
A reason to live to be 33 years and 1 day old
You’ve seen the new Tron Legacy trailer, right? I know I’m a week and a half late on mentioning it, but it’s been giving me multiple nerdgasms and it took this long to calm down enough to type. I saw this trailer in Imax 3D when I went to see Alice in Wonderland Friday before [...]
