OLS 2008 - Day 1
Times has come once again to talk of Ottawa Linux Symposium. Yep, that’s right it’s that time of the year again (ok, I’m posting it a little bit late).
Today was mostly uneventful. I woke up just before 6, got to the airport, flew to Ottawa, got to the hotel, realized I was about 4 hours early for check-in. I left my bag at the hotel, and went to the conference center. There I ran into Christoph Lameter. Having nothing better to do, we decided to pick up our registration and then go eat something.
When I got to the airport (LaGuardia) in the morning, I went on to continue reading a book I was about 2/3 of the way through — Princess Bride. My reading got briefly interrupted by the boarding call. After boarding the plane, I resumed reading. There is one really nice property these paper things have over electronic ways of eating up time…they don’t need to be turned off for take off and landing. Anyway, I fished the book while waiting for the hotel shuttle at the Ottawa airport. For what it’s worth, it’s a good book that everyone should read.
Around 6pm, a bunch of people I know (but probably shouldn’t associate myself with them in public ;) ) got to the hotel…about 2 hours later, one of them, a weather-loving KDE code monkey (yeah, that’s you Shawn) and I ordered pizza. It was quite tasty, as were the chicken pieces in the blue-cheese sauce.
Anyhow, time to run to the next talk….I’ll try to post at least once a day with random stuff…we’ll see how that goes.