My fiancé is a network engineer who frequently has to travel for conferences, and this month I tagged along for a week to visit my old home of Philadelphia. I decided I would attend a meeting of the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group (PLUG) North chapter on Tuesday evening. When I noticed they didn’t have […]
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Fosscon video now available
August 2nd, 2011 by pleia2
For Fosscon on July 23rd Gene Riordan, my co-worker over at LinuxForce, brought along his camera and took a somewhat impromptu video of my keynote! In spite of the city noise and fans you can actually hear me and it turned out ok. You can’t see my slides, but they’re available here and you can […]
Fosscon 2011
July 26th, 2011 by pleia2
Before the sun came up on Friday the 22nd MJ and I were at the San Francisco airport waiting for the 6:15AM flight that would put us on the ground in Philadelphia shortly after 2:30PM that afternoon. Upon landing we stepped off the plane and were greeted by a wall of heat. As soon as […]
Fosscon is approaching!
July 11th, 2011 by pleia2
Fosscon on July 23rd in downtown Philadelphia is quickly approaching! I mentioned back in May that I’d be flying out to Philly to do the keynote for Fosscon and now the speaker line-up also includes: Deb Nicholson – Community Organizing for Free Software Activists Mark Jason Dominus – Join my army of git zombies Walt […]
Keynoting at Fosscon in July
May 2nd, 2011 by pleia2
Last month I was approached by the organizers of Fosscon, taking place in Philadelphia this year, and asked if I would be interested in doing the keynote. It requires a flight across the country, but Philadelphia is my old home and I was delighted by the opportunity! So on Saturday July 23rd I’ll be giving […]
Philadelphia – foodadelphia!
September 16th, 2010 by pleia2
When I was making plans to move to San Francisco one of the things I was most excited about was the plethora of amazing food that awaited me on the golden coast. I didn’t even bother to think how much I’d miss the food from Philadelphia! Pretty quickly I found a place for a good […]
Phillies v. Giants
April 29th, 2010 by pleia2
When I lived up in Maine I went to a Portland Sea Dogs game once while in High School. In 2006 I went to a Readings Phillies game. On Monday night I went to my first Major League game! The Phillies were in town to play the Giants. And we lost. No wait, San Francisco […]
The Move
February 19th, 2010 by pleia2
First: We all (MJ, the cats and myself) arrived safely in San Francisco Tuesday evening. Friday I signed over the title for Blinker to my friend Nita. MJ arrived in Philly Saturday and we spent the day running errands that couldn’t be done Sunday or President’s day. One of the tasks we needed to do […]
It is my last week in Pennsylvania
February 9th, 2010 by pleia2
When I moved to Pennsylvania 8 years ago I didn’t really have any kind of attachment to the area, but 8 years is a long time and over these past few weeks I came to realize how deep I had sunk my roots in here. It’s been painful to pull them up for the move, […]
Camden Aquarium and The Abbaye
February 6th, 2010 by pleia2
Last weekend I met up with waltman and we headed down to Camden to go to Adventure Aquarium. Unfortunately it’s winter, so the ferry isn’t running, but the trip over the bridge and through a bit of Camden was not a big problem. First stop at the aquarium was to head out to see the […]