First, the reason I do NOT endorse.

Hitler and Nazism
The letter “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet in many languages, including German. So, substituting the number 8 directly to a letter of the alphabet results in H. 88 substituted results in “HH”. Apparently, “HH” is short for “Heil Hitler!” in German. So, people who use the number 88 are associating themselves with the Nazi regime and the cause of Hitler, showing their support. I am NOT one of these people! I do not support Hitler, Nazism, antisemitism or anything related to WWII, the Third Reich, etc. I am not a skinhead, I don’t own a Broken Cross, I don’t persecute anyone for their religious beliefs, I don’t hang out in gangs, and I don’t believe the Caucasian “race” is superior to any other. I have nothing to do with this movement, old or new, and people who know me personally, know this is the case. I value life, religious tolerance and racial and social equality. As far as I’m concerned, Adolf Hitler was one of the most, if not the most, immoral and unethical people in the 20th century.

So, if you take one thing out of this, take this: I don’t support Hitler, his regime, his values, nor his sadistic, screwed up way of viewing politics.

Now, the main reason why I chose this nickname.

The Piano
For the uninitiated, there are eightyeight keys on a standard piano, and guess what? I play the piano. I formally started at 6 years old, and had formal and informal training on and off from that point to today. During my early teen years, I found a passion for competing in local, regional and statewide competitions, and participated in them frequently. Not only this, but I played the piano for choir as an accompanist, I played the piano for school musicals, I played the piano in band and orchestra when appropriate, and I play the organ now for my church. I have taught lessons, and still play quite frequently, despite my very busy schedule. When I reached about 16 years old, kids in school started calling me “88″ or “88 keys”. I think this was the result of the Warren Beatty film Dick Tracy that debuted about the same time, and kids who had seen it thought it was an appropriate nickname for me.

Now, not all pianos or keyboards for that matter have eightyeight keys. The Bosendorfer Imperial Grand, a piano that I have yet to play on, has a full 13 octaves, from low C to the high C- an astonishing 97 keys. Organs, while not pianos, have many manuals that can total far more or far less that eightyeight keys. However, it’s generally understood that a standard piano has eightyeight keys, starting from the low A and reaching the high C.

There are other reasons why I like this number.

Asian culture
The word eight implies wealth in Mandarin Chinese, and as a result, symbolizes good luck and fortune. This is quite the drastic difference from neo-nazi culture. In fact, the Asian culture have deep roots in the luck and wealth that the number 8 brings. Many prices in markets, stores and other places will be littered with eights. A price of fruit, for example, might be $1.88 or 88 cents. Further, the Beijing Olympics started on August 8, 2008 (8/8/08) at 8:00pm. Coincidence? I can say as well that 8 has been a lucky number for me, although not necessarily 88.

Aside from playing the piano, I’m also a Mathematician and Computer Scientist. There are some interesting qualities of the number 88 in mathematics. Some of which are listed below:

Palindromic
I have always enjoyed palindromes. I don’t know why, but when I first learned about them in elementary school, I would sit at my desk, and think up as many palindromes as I could. “NOON”, “MOM”, “DAD”, and “TENET” were some of the words I came up with at that age. Then, of course, I would do the same with palindromic numbers as well. 88 was especially cool, because I could write in in the fancy “S” where you drew two rows of three lines, and connected them with diagonals. Remember that? Of course you do. You thought it was cool then too.

Primitive Semiperfect
A semiperfect number in mathematics is where all or some of the factors of the number sum up to the number itself. For example, the factors of the number 6 are 1, 2, 3 and 6. Adding those factors results in 6. Another semiperfect number is 20, where its factors are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10 and 20. 10+5+4+1=20. 88 is semiperfect. Its factors are 1, 2, 4, 8, 11, 22, 44 and 88. 44+22+11+8+2+1=88.

So, what is a primitive semiperfect number? This is a number where it is not divisible by any other smaller semiperfect number. Knowing the factors of 88, you can see this is the case, as the smaller semiperfect numbers in sequential order are: 6, 12, 18, 20, 24, 28, 30, 36, 40, 42, 48, 54, 56, 60, 66, 72, 78, 80 and 84, none of which are a factor of 88. As a result, 88 is primitive semiperfect.

Refactorable
A refactorable number is an integer where the count of its factors is divisible by that integer. For example, 9 is refactorable. It’s factors are 1,3 and 9. There are three factors, and three itself is a factor of 9. Another refactorable number is 40. Its factors are 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20 and 40. There are 8 factors of 40, including 40 itself, and 8 is a factor of 40. There are also 8 factors of 88, and guess what? 8 is a factor of 88. 88 is refactorable.

Untouchable
An untouchable number is a positive number that cannot be written as the sum of all the divisors of any other number excluding its greatest factor. For example, the number 4 is not untouchable, because the factors of 9 are 1 and 3 (excluding 9 itself), which sum to 4. 5 however is untouchable, as there is no number where all of the factors add strictly to 5. 88 falls in this category.

Hexadecagonal
Many numbers can be thought of shapes using dots or pebbles arranged in the shape of a polygon. For example, the number 6 is triangular, as six pebbles can be arranged to form an equilateral triangle. 10 is the next triangular number. 9 on the other hand is rectangular, arranging the pebbles in a square. What is hexadecagon? It’s a 16-sided polygon with 16 vertices. So, this means 88 pebbles can be arranged into an equilateral hexadecagon.

Conclusion
I hope you can see that there are many interesting facts about the number 88, including Nazism. 88 has cultural significance in many cultures, of which I only mention two. It has many interesting mathematical properties, and even has astronomical significance. For example, it takes eightyeight days for Mercury to complete its orbit around the Sun. So, now that you’ve read this post, I hope you walk away a bit more informed, a bit more knowledgeable, and less judgmental. 88 is a great number, and I can recognize it for its unique and interesting qualities. Can you?

First, I wanted to change my personal “business” card (referred to as a “personal card” from here on out). My initial personal card was an Ubuntu one I had printed after becoming an Ubuntu Member. I ordered 2,500 of them a couple years ago, and I’ve handed just about every one of them out. Rather than reorder a new batch, I wanted something more generic than just targeting Ubuntu. Further, I wanted to take advantage of technology.

When Google changed their front page logo to a bar code on October 7, 2009 to celebrate the approval of the bar code patent, I spent a great deal of time on Wikipedia learning about bar codes. I knew there was a quite a few out there, but I wasn’t aware of all the types, how the encoding was handled, and so forth. In the process, I discovered QR Code.

QR Code appealed to me for a few reasons. First, although a patented technology, it’s royalty-free and the patent owner has promised to not exert patent rights on it. This is the same case as with Ogg Vorbis. So, although not truly an “open format” in the pure sense of the word, good enough for me. Further, there is a an application called “qrencode” that is Free Software and available an most GNU/Linux operating systems. So, this makes it easy to create your own QR codes. Second, the technology behind the QR code is rather slick. It contains error correction, should up to 30% of the code be damaged or unreadable. It can be scanned any direction in 360 degrees for bar code scanners. The density is high enough to store up to 7,000 characters. More features can be found on the owner’s page.

Immediately, I saw this as an opportunity to encode my contact information. This would be a great way to put your name, web site, email, address, telephone number, and other useful information in a compact space. I could see putting this up on web sites to avoid email harvesters (although it’s only a matter of time before they are smart enough to decode QR codes). Then I thought, why not put it on my personal card? The only thing that was preventing me from doing so was an efficient way for a contact who receives my card to get the data out of it.

At the time, the only decoder I was aware of was the ZXING site. You gave it a URL path to a QR code image, or uploaded your own, and it would decode the information. I didn’t want people scanning my personal card to an image, then uploading that image to the site. There has to be a better way. So, I started browsing the ZXING site a bit, and I learned that it’s an Open Source project for creating a bar code reader. The project is hosted on Google Code, and I found that there is a Blackberry, iPhone and Android app. SWEET!

So, now people can install the free app on their phone, scan the image, and parse out the contact information. The only problem that I saw at the time, is even though they can scan the QR code, and decode the data, the app just presents the user with the raw data, with no ability to add that information to their address book. So, my quest continued. Surely, there must be a way to get the contact information out of the QR code, and into an address book. So, back to web to found out how.

Needless to say, it didn’t take long at all before I learned about MECARD. You can think of MECARD as a light version of vCard. Essentially, a single line of text contains all the meta data and appropriate information for populating an address book. Info such as name, address, telephone, email, URL and more. Further, the ZXING app supports parsing MECARD data, and adding that data to your address book!

At this point, I was satisfied. I’m ready to build my own QR code, and put it on my personal card. Well, almost ready. I wanted one extra step before I was ready to commit my personal card to the printer. For the URL in my MECARD, I wanted it to point to additional contact information that could also be parsed using computing for adding to an address book, whether it be on a mobile phone or an email address book, such as in Mozilla Thunderbird or Outlook, or even online, like with Google Contacts. So, I spent more time searching the web, finding a way to get all this integrated.

It wasn’t long before I found hCard. hCard is an HTML version of vCard. It’s a microformat for embedding HTML into a web site, so applications, just as JavaScript or Firefox extension, can parse the data, and populate an address book with the appropriate entries. The whole point is to keep the contact from entering in the contact information by hand. Otherwise, I just would have printed the raw ASCII on the personal card. No, I want to fully automate my contact information from head to toe taking advantage of mobile phones and other technology. So, hCard fit the bill.

I began populating my own hCard to put on my main site, then the URL in my MECARD would point the user that direction. However, I found that my Google Profile already supports hCard, FOAF, XFN and other standards. So, for me, it made sense to point people that direction rather than build my own. However, after having my QR Code created with everything I wanted, and pointing them to the right URL, and getting the cards printed, I found that Google isn’t exporting email address, URL, telephone, or other information that hCard supports in the HTML. I’m a bit disappointed by this, and I wish I would have paid closer attention, but I guess it will have to work for the time being. I’m hoping that Google adds this data to the hCard export, so I don’t have to change my personal cards in the near future.

Now, the personal cards themselves. I wanted to go hard core, relying 100% on technology to parse the data rather than a human. So, I put just the QR Code on the “front” of the card, with no alphanumeric data anywhere to be found. On the back of the card, I put the glider image, a fanboy icon for the hacker culture and ethic. That’s it. An image on one side and an image on the other. The personal card itself has no rotation and should you have a smart phone with a bar code reader, it should be trivial for you to get out the contact information, and populate your address book.

This is a trial run. I don’t know what will happen or what will come about as I start handing out this card to people. Time will tell. It should be interesting though, and I’m sure it will be quite the conversation starter. Here’s to risks.

The concept is simple. Whiskerino is an Internet beard growing contest that happens biannually on the odd years. As a participant, you take a photo of yourself, and upload it to your account on the site. Other users of the contest will vote on the uploaded pics for the day. The pic with the most votes, becomes King Beard. However, not all is care free. There are some certain rules that you must abide by:

1. The contest runs from November 1, 2009 to February 28, 2010. You will be required to post a photo of yourself to your account at least once every 7 days.
2. You must start on Day One completely clean shaven. Sideburns can not extend beyond the earlobe.
3. You are required to grow a full beard. This means whiskers on the upper lip, cheeks, chin and neck.
4. You are not allowed to shave the beard until the end of the contest. Trimming, shaping or styling are highly discouraged.
5. The photo must be of the participant. It is not allowed to be altered in any way. Take the snapshot, and upload it.
6. Photos must be 4×3 aspect ratio, no smaller than 500px in width. No nudity, profane gestures hateful, imagery, or otherwise offensive content. No more than one image per day can be submitted.
7. Breaking any of the above rules results in the participant being placed into the Hall of Shame, from which he cannot return. You will be ejected from the contest.
8. The winner will be chosen by participation in the contest, not just beard growth necessarily. This includes ratings on photos, overall spirit of the contest, attendance and beard style.

So, I’m all in. My wife fully supports my decision (at least until my brother’s wedding in December, of which she might want some trimming or shaping done to the beard). I’ve managed to talk a few of my friends into it as well. So, it will be fun to participate with them, and also make new friends in the contest. I’ve never grown a full beard before. I’ve always been a fan of the circle beard. So, this will be a new experience for me.

Further, every Unix/Linux system administrator should be sporting full beard. It’s part of our culture. It’s who we are. Think of the Greats: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Richard Stallman, Alan Cox, Brian Kernighan, and even Steve Jobs (back in the day) all sport beards (c’mon Linus, where’s your Unix beard?). I hope to be able to place my name among them. At least my coworker is fully bearded. Maybe I’ll be able to grasp some of the vast amounts of Unix knowledge from him.

I’ll later post the URL to my Whiskerino profile page. Because the photos are generally meant to be of the creative style for the contest, I’ll be taking that photo, but I’ll also be taking a photo that will suit well for a time lapse “camera”. This will probably go to my Picasa account, which I’ll also provide a link to later. Lastly, for those reading my blog via RSS, you won’t be able to get the benefit of watching the beard growth, unless Whiskerino provides an RSS feed to each profile page. I might post a photo here or there on the blog though. We’ll see. However, there will be a side bar on my blog showing the daily snapshot of my ugly mug.

In the immortal words of William Shakespeare in the play Much Ado About Nothing:

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
~ Beatrice speaking to Leonato

So, can you explain that to me? Why is his fresh number getting spammed, while mine remains completely spam-free? Is selling personal information part of your business plan too? Just curious. Oh, and by the way, I’m not a customer. I left your “Spirit of Service”, because it wasn’t any good.

At the Utah Open Source Conference, I gave a BOF on Unix shells. The turnout was good, and we had a great discussion. I presented on my default prompt for ZSH, showing all the hidden features of the prompt. However, I had forgotten that I had removed battery status from my prompt, because I was depending on APM, which is no longer compiled in the kernel. A couple people have asked me since then why I’m depending on APM and not ACPI. I don’t have an answer, other than that was just what I coded. So, last night, I put up an ACPI implementation, and it works great. As with the APM implementation, if the battery percentage is less than 15%, the percentage display is red. If it’s less than 50% but greater than 14%, it’s yellow, and if it’s less than 100% but greater than 49%, it’s blue. If it’s 100%, or the tool “acpi” is not installed, then it doesn’t show up. Here’s a screenshot below:

While hanging out in our local LUG channel for the Ogden Area Linux Users Group, I got talking with Seth about prompts. He decided to change his, including adding the dog from Nethack randomly “moving” in the prompt. He also mentioned changing the color of the path if the present working directory was not writable. I really liked this idea, and decided to implement it in my prompt. Here’s a screenshot of that in action:

I change the path color to yellow if the present working directory is not writable, as it’s noticeable enough to catch your attention, but subtle enough to not get in the way, and be distracting.

As usual, if you want the source, here it is. Yes, it’s public domain, as mentioned in the code, so have at it.

Honestly, I don’t know why blog engines have databases for posts, when static HTML files can be produced rather effortlessly. I understand WP Cache does something similar, but I’ve had mixed results with that plugin.

Anyway, the blog migration will probably happen sometime this weekend, ready for a new life Monday. Also, I’m hoping that I can preserve date timestamps in the RSS feed, so as to not spam the planets that I currently push to. I’ll be testing in a development environment first, to make sure everything goes smooth, not like you care.

See you on the other side.

However, let me not put my new job in a bad light. It might be second place, but it’s trailing first by mere inches. However, as with a close friend of mine, I would like to keep this job anonymous. This will give me a little freedom to post topics that are close to my heart, and share stories and experiences without putting my employer in the spotlight, or putting my job at risk. Don’t get me wrong- I’m not going to post sensitive information, or any of that. Rather, I’ll be able to keep my opinions as my opinions, and not those of my employer.

However, with that, I’ll tell you that I am now working as a contractor to do system administration. I am a Red Hat / HPUX / Solaris system administrator. My job duties include those of most standard system administrators- rotating backups, installing new systems, configuring software, writing scripts, adding accounts and so forth. I administer around 35-40 servers for a semi-large development team, a database team and a number of configuration managers. My team is rather small, which encompasses a team lead (my boss), 3 system admins and 2 configuration managers. Today, my task was updating a RHEL 4 box with the latest versions of Python, Apache2 and PostgreSQL to power Trac.

With my new job, I’m happy. Very happy. This job seems to be at a reasonable pace, the team is very friendly, and the duties that I’ll be covering are vast. I’ll be able to get my hands dirty in many aspects of administration, such as storage management, networking, databases, installation, configuration, security and other things. Everything I taught to my students as an instructor, I’ll be able to put to practice. Setting up LDAP with Kerberos? Sure. Customizing SELinux policy? You bet! Playing with tape robots? Of course. If the contract stays in play, or the company I’m contracting for picks me up, I could see myself staying there for some time. When a job is fun, it’s hard to let go of the job.

Republican representative Brad Dee is running for Legislative District 11 here in my county in Utah. When my wife checked the mail, she called me to tell me about this political flier of his. He wants to show his support for public education. In fact, on the front of the flier, “Representative Brad Dee is looking out for teachers and students on Capitol Hill!” is stated on the left, with the following on the right: “Brad Dee is the 2008 Lewis W. Shurtliff Award recipient – for his dedication to yhe advancement and improvement education in Utah”. Did you catch it? No, I didn’t type it incorrectly. Read it again. I’ve even attached a picture below.

I won’t be voting for Brad Dee, not because his marketing team can’t get an education flier grammatically correct, along with spelling, but because our views don’t see eye-to-eye. However, if you’re going to send out a flier about your support for education, you better make sure that you seem educated. From the looks of this flier, I’m thinking that could be difficult.

  

Last night, my daughter, who is 9 months old, got a hold of my Palm Centro. As all babies do, she began exploring the phone by putting it in her mouth. As such, the slobber made its way into the case, and now my phone won’t power on. So, it’s in need of repair. I realize that it’s not covered under warranty, so tomorrow, I’ll be taking my phone to the nearest Sprint retail store to see what my options are.

Before taking the phone in, I was curious if I could forward my phone number to my wife’s phone. This shouldn’t be difficult, as I can easily do this with my Vonage line. I just login to my account, set the preference, and off I go. This is a great feature, should I be on vacation, or away from my house, but still want to receive calls to my house. However, as I logged in to the Sprint site, I could not find such a feature anywhere in my account. So, I took the opportunity to chat live with a representative.

So, I had a couple questions regarding forwarding my calls to my wife’s cell, and the potential of purchasing a new phone, should the phone not be repairable, or the repair price is more than I’m willing to spend. First, the question about forwarding my cell calls. She asked if I had the phone with me, and if I could enter text in the phone. I told her no, that it won’t even power on. She then proceeded to explain that unless I could type numbers in the phone, this option is not available. Even through the web interface.

Then, the next question I asked, is whether or not I could activate an unlocked phone should my Centro not get repaired. She told be this was not an option, as Sprint only activates Sprint CDMA locked phones. So, Google, you’re out of luck with your Android based OS. OpenMoko, you too with the Neo Freerunner. Even if the phone is a triband CDMA phone, that works on their frequencies, it’s a dead end. No activating unlocked phones with Sprint. This sucks, as I can purchase the phone I want, with the features I’m looking for, and easily hook it up to my Vonage line provided a gateway. After all, a phone is just that: a phone.

So, as it sits, I have 16 months left until the end of my contract. I think I’ll pay the $200, cancel the contract, and move to a provider that meets the needs I want (with a bill about $100 / month, I’ll still be saving a crap-load of money). It’s apparent you have several issues on board, and you’re obviously not interested in solving any of them, so I’m really not interested in being your customer.

Good luck on keeping the remaining few loyal customers. I’m sure you’ll be dead soon.

To those bloggers that have been offended, or others that may be in the future, you should probably make it painfully clear what license you are willing to publish your content under, then make that license highly visible on your site. My content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States license. I have spelled out the terms of the license under a separate page, with a link to the page found under the header section of the site. I would recommend that others do the same.

To those who are mirroring such content. I would highly suggest that you check to make sure you aren’t violating any licenses. There is legal recourse that can be taken. Hopefully, however, we never need to resort to those measures. If DMCA notices are issued, please comply. If emails are mailed, please comply. I am of the nature where I will first try to contact you via conventional means. I just don’t like to make a fuss. But, I have the DMCA take down notice at my disposal. I just hope I don’t have to use it.

Thanks.

It’s a quiet day. I’m sitting in front of Hercules (R.I.P.), my faithful laptop, coding away, when I see a new email in my inbox from Google. The title of the message- “Hello from Google!”. Curious, I open it up. The body of the text is as follows:

Hi Aaron-

My name is Dan McCarthy; I’m a talent scout for the engineering team here at Google. I came across some of your work on the Web and was impressed with your development experience – particularly the breadth of your background in Linux and your abilities in Python, both of which are extremely valuable here.

I actually recruit for the Google.com engineering team here, which is the group of engineers that’s essentially the mission control of Google. They’re responsible for the design and development of the infrastructure for all our web applications and internal services. You’d be able to tackle some of the most unique scalability problems in the world and work on the newest products we have. It’s a mission-critical role that involves a lot of coding and requires a high degree of creativity and troubleshooting expertise, so we’re looking for Unix experts and great coders with broad skill sets (like yourself)! We have several positions within the Google.com department that I feel would be a good match for your skills and qualifications. The positions are currently available in:

Mountain View, CA
Santa Monica, CA
New York, NY
Kirkland/Seattle, WA
Dublin, Ireland
Zurich, Switzerland
Sydney, Australia

I’m not asking you to quit what you’re doing now – just seeing if you might be interested in exploring opportunities with Google. If you’re at all interested in the department or in Google in general, I’d love to speak with you about the opportunities we have here – and of course, if any of your talented colleagues would be interested, feel free to forward my name and contact information to them as well.

You also may have noticed that a couple of weeks ago we were named the #1 company to work for by Fortune Magazine: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2007/snapshots/1.html

Thanks for your time, and I hope to hear from you soon!

Best regards,

-Dan McCarthy
Engineering Staffing Team
<snip>

I was excited, needless to say. Even though it is a recruiter, and his job may be scout out possible new-hires for the company, I felt flattered. Whether it be a form mail that he sends out to anyone and everyone (insert name here), or a personal mail sent just to myself, I had to keep my options open. I replied saying I was interested, and what the next steps would be. I forwarded him my resume, and within a couple days, had a phone screening.

I was asked where my strengths lie, how I felt in certain areas of technology and software development and where I would best fit given the talents that I had. After everything was in order, I was asked a few technical questions to review my competency, then the review was left to the Hiring Committee. After a week of review, it was determined that I was not a good fit for Google.

During the phone screen, I was given the opportunity to ask any questions that I had. I seized the moment, and asked Dan how I was discovered. The initial email mentioned that he was impressed with my work on the web, and my Linux experience, but other than that, I was curious just exactly how he found me.

The response? My blog.

Because I blog, regularly and consistently, and stick with very specific topics, I was weeded out from the millions, and given the opportunity to work for one of the greatest companies, if not the single greatest, on the planet. Who would’ve thought that blogging could create such opportunities? I certainly didn’t. So, should I pass up the opportunity to work for other companies? No way! Keep my options open, and ready to respond. I never know who will be on the lookout next.

Am I bummed that I didn’t get a job at Google? No, not really. I work for a fantastic startup company, namely introPLAY, which I am confident will take off and do fairly well. I love the environment that I am currently working for, and love those that I work with even more. I don’t know if I would enjoy going back to a M-F 9-5 environment with corporate management and rampant politics. Then again, it is Google. Who knows? Maybe Google will acquire introPLAY, and I’ll end up becoming one of the borg anyway.

I just dropped 90 squid on keyboard!!! Not any keyboard, however, Das Keyboard. The great thing about this keyboard, is it is 100% blank. No writing on the keys whatsoever. Check out the image to the right. Blank, just like a piano, or the look on my wife’s face when she finds out I bought it.

The great thing about this keyboard, besides the fact that I type in Dvorak, and need something for my index fingers to rest on that isn’t J and F, is the mechanical superiority. This keyboard, as claimed on the website, is supposed to surpass the IBM Model M. I’ve typed on that keyboard, and if the claim is true, then I’m sold. The IBM Model M keyboard is a revolutionary piece of hardware. Check out the pressure requirements under each key. Not unique to keyboards, but very nice.

At any rate, here are a few of the features of the keyboard, and ultimately, the reasons that I purchased it:

• 100% blank.
• Mechanical gold-plated switches, surpassing the IBM Model M
• Scooped F and J keys
• USB (compatible with all operating systems)

17:00-19:00:

Meeting with my group OALUG about security using GnuPG. I am presenting.

19:00-21:00:

Meeting with the Ubuntu-Utah group in #ubuntu-utah on IRC. I am helping conduct by aiding Christer, our Team Lead.

21:00-23:00:

Meeting with the US Teams Project in #ubuntu-meeting on IRC. I am conducting the meeting. All are invited to attend.

Wow! 6 hours of meetings!! I’ll be exhausted when the day is over, and that doesn’t count the fact that the CEO of my company is coming for a visit today through the end of next week. My coworker and I might be showing him around our office today.