I’m glad I started keeping a calendar last year, I don’t think I’d be able to live without one now. My task list is still an issue though, am currently trying out a few solutions to this, Goog Calendar now has tasks built into it, hmm. Last week I had a lovely dinner with Crissi, [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Road Trip to New Orleans!
August 18th, 2009 by pleia2
The 5 minute conversation between Brent Saner and I last Monday went like this: < bts3685> pleia2: come to new orleans with me on saturday! < pleia2> bts3685: too hot :( < bts3685> my car has a/c! < pleia2> bts3685: you’re driving down? < bts3685> yes < pleia2> haha, wow < bts3685> and i can [...]
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Upcoming talks, photos from Virtualization Roundtable
August 17th, 2009 by pleia2
I have two upcoming open source talks: “Expanding involvement of Women in F/OSS” at PLUG Central on September 2nd. I’ve spoken on this topic before, and committed to this one prior to my retirement from the subject in the public arena. I considered changing topics, but the folks at PLUG are a good bunch and [...]
Travel, Time, TV, Chromium browser, Linode upgrade
August 14th, 2009 by pleia2
Gosh, my blog has been full of work, work, work and seriousness these past few weeks. I did mention my jaunt off to San Francisco a couple weeks ago to visit MJ (yay!). I stayed in last weekend and worked on projects, but this weekend am doing another insane-weekend-trip and am road tripping down to [...]
Philadelphia area Linux Users Group Virtualization Roundtable Summary
August 13th, 2009 by pleia2
On Tuesday night we hosted a Virtualization Roundtable at PLUG North meeting. To be honest, it started out as a bit of a filler event because we didn’t have a speaker, but upon mentioning the possibility the response I got was very positive. I started planning the event last month, gathered a few experts who [...]
Ubuntu Community Learning Project and Ubuntu US Teams
August 13th, 2009 by pleia2
Ubuntu Community Learning Project Due to my involvement in the Ubuntu Classroom project, I became involved with the Beginners Team Education Focus group earlier this year. The #ubuntu-classroom channel began hosting Beginners Team classes. From there the Ubuntu Community Learning Team was born. Over the past several months the team has been working through licensing [...]
Sweet Home 3D
August 4th, 2009 by pleia2
This past weekend I flew to San Francisco to visit my boyfriend and help him start getting settled into the gorgeous new condo he recently purchased and I had yet to see. Upon arrival, I felt like I’d been there before! This was partially due to the photos and raw floor plans he sent me, [...]