Since my new job is working with the OpenStack infrastructure team, I am able to attend the OpenStack Design Summit this week in Portland, Oregon! I woke up just before 4AM on Monday to take a 6:15AM flight to Portland, putting me in Portland shortly after 8AM and to the conference center around 9AM, at […]
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Ubuntu at SCaLE11x
March 1st, 2013 by pleia2
This year marked the 3rd Southern California Linux Expo I’ve attended, and once again it didn’t disappoint. The first year I gave a talk at the Ubucon and helped with the booth over the weekend, last year I gave a talk at Ubucon, one at the conference itself and then ran the Ubuntu booth, an […]
Weekend in the “Entertainment Capital of the World”
February 20th, 2013 by pleia2
This past weekend 3 friends and I spent a the three day weekend in Las Vegas! Picking the hotel was the easiest. Since this was a trip without MJ, I decided to go for one that I knew he wouldn’t be interested in going to, the Flamingo! It’s an older hotel, right in the middle […]
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And then I was off to Seattle to meet my team
January 16th, 2013 by pleia2
Last week I started my new job as an Automation and Tools Engineer at Hewlett-Packard. In this role I’ve joined an awesome team to work on the core infrastructure for the open source OpenStack project. On Sunday I flew to Seattle to meet my boss some of the members of the team. In a whirlwind […]
Wedding planning stuff and a PLUG meeting in Philly
January 11th, 2013 by pleia2
Last week MJ and I headed to Philadelphia to celebrate the new year, attend a PLUG meeting and go to several wedding-related appointments we had lined up. Some flurries awaited our arrival Saturday night and there was already snow on the ground due to past precipitation, but it was nothing too worrying. Fortunately the weather […]
San Diego Zoo!
December 22nd, 2012 by pleia2
On Sunday MJ and I checked out of the hotel, which was a bit of a relief because it turns out a youth soccer tournament decided to use the hotel as their base and it had grown quite out of control will kids (don’t get me wrong, kids are cool, but the loud, unsupervised roaming […]
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
December 17th, 2012 by pleia2
After LISA ’12 MJ joined me in San Diego for a weekend of San Diego Zoo adventure! We stayed at the Loews Coronado Bay hotel, which made for a very comfortable stay Friday night. We made our way up to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park late Saturday morning, arriving around 11AM. The park itself […]
LISA ’12 in San Diego
December 14th, 2012 by pleia2
This week I attended my first Large Installation Systems Administration conference, LISA ’12 in San Diego. I worked Monday and Tuesday this week and took a 7AM flight to San Diego on Wednesday morning. I made it to the conference center just in time to see the beginning of Vint Cerf’s keynote where he talked […]
Travel wraps up with a visit to Philly
November 12th, 2012 by pleia2
I left home on October 10th and went on a whirlwind tour that brought me to Accra, Copenhagen and finally Philadelphia – 3 continents! The weekend I went from Copenhagen to Philadelphia was an extremely long one. I left Copenhagen on a 6AM flight on Saturday, connecting with a 3 hour layover in Frankfurt (my […]
Tourist in Copenhagen
November 5th, 2012 by pleia2
With the Ubuntu Developer Summit ending a day sooner than it has in the past, I decided to take the opportunity on Friday to do some touristing in downtown Copenhagen. I didn’t have many plans, but I did want to see The Little Mermaid statue and do a little shopping. The night before I sketched […]
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