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Sushi, Debian & local linux stuff

Last night I didn’t feel like eating in so Michael suggested we go out for sushi. We hadn’t been out for sushi in ages. There was a sushi place down in Jenkintown that we used to go to, but the last few visits have not impressed us much – I guess the neighborhood is just getting sucked into the city and going bad. There is a sushi place in Skippack which is only about 4 miles from our house, but we weren’t overly impressed with them. So Michael hit Google and found Bonjung Japanese Restaurant in Collegeville. Sushi is always a risky experience, but I was up to it.

We were pleasantly surprised. The prices were a bit high at first glance, but when we saw the generous portions of fish we could see why. And FRESH! Boy that was some fresh fish, probably the best salmon I’ve ever had at a sushi bar. Best of all? Michael requested a special roll that was quite untraditional and after going back and forth with the waitress about specifics a few times she presented us with exactly what he wanted. She got a nice tip for her efforts. I think we found a new sushi place! And it’s only 15 minutes from our house. Wait… that’s dangerous…

So, who saw the DSA on Sunday and thought of me? Hmm? Anyone? Webcalendar is fixed up! The credit almost entirely goes to my co-maintainer, while I was mourning my graphics card all weekend he was busy following up on our mandate from the security team and patching sarge (oldstable). We also did another release this week, added php5 to the dependencies (along with php4) after far too much discussion on -mentors and the bug reports about how it would break if you had php4 installed but libapache-mod-php5 – dependencies are satisfied but it won’t work. I made the executive decision to move forward based on precedent (other packages support both 4 and 5) and wanting to keep php4 support.

Which reminds me I ordered a new GFX card.

Local Linux stuff – the PLUG website has sort of limped along since left a few years ago. kept all meeting information up to date (which is the important part!) and would routinely update the other local groups pages. Since I’m now running PLUG Montco he gave me access a couple months back and I have big dreams! Actually, not that big, I just want to freshen up parts of the site that have started to collect dust. I dropped an email to the other admins and “interested parties” on Sunday.

There is an active Pennsylvania Ubuntu LoCo! How cool is that? Forums here. I was musing in an email to a fellow I met at PLUG recently about how I should contact the one I thought existed and he laughed and said he was one of the administrators! Haha! They’re just getting started, launched a website and have some meetings an installfests planned. I offered to help out with some startup administrative stuff that they need help with because I’m a sucker for that sort of thing. Oh, and I love Ubuntu.