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caseopaya (finally) brings to completion my visitation of states and territories of Australia. Whilst most of it was taken up with the SAGE-AU Conference (at the very pleasant Bardon Centre), the opportunity did arise to visit the arts and museum centre where for the second time in the past several months I saw the Chinese dinosaur fossil collection (the other time was in Wellington). The art centre had a highly notable collection of contemporary indigenous art, a lot of which packed quite a political punch.
After the conference itself, Saturday was spent on a pleasant visit to Stradbroke Island. Which a popular and naturally beautiful place, the local cemetary bears witness to the fairly grim history of the place.
Time was also taken to catch up withartbroken, bodgirl, greenglowgirl, and doomydoombear. Truly wonderful to finally meet you all in real life.
The SAGE-AU Conference was an excellent affair. My paper was quite modest on a technical level (after all, there were people there who look after some of the largest and most powerful clusters in the world), but it was well-received. One person described it as "systems administration on the edge". Arjen Lentz's presentation increased the appeal of MySQL, Geoff Huston's keynote speech on the quantity of spam, probes and virus' was realistic (and pessimistic), and Simon Hackett spoke well on the evils (read anti-competitive practises) of Telstra.
There was an election for the two unfilled committee positions as well. With a promise to provide political lobbying I was elected along with a sysadmin journalist. Hmmm.... I see a pattern here.
Finally, I wish to bid a heartfelt fare well to a little old cat of enormous personality named Balbi, previously owned byseverina_242. At the ripe old age of 15.5 Balbi's kidneys packed it in, which is always the end of the line. severina_242 misses the grumpysweet old thing, but is also being stoically rational about the intrinsic instability of biological life.
I've slipped a little in my CCNA studies because of the conference (although I did read and test myself with TCP/IP for Windows 2000. Currently wading my way through semester three (intermediate routing and switching) and may have to force myself to complete semester three and four this coming seven days. To continue the madness I start an additional full-time course tomorrow (Certificate in Small Business Management). Hmmm... Better do something about that publishing cooperative sson as well..
caseopaya (finally) brings to completion my visitation of states and territories of Australia. Whilst most of it was taken up with the SAGE-AU Conference (at the very pleasant Bardon Centre), the opportunity did arise to visit the arts and museum centre where for the second time in the past several months I saw the Chinese dinosaur fossil collection (the other time was in Wellington). The art centre had a highly notable collection of contemporary indigenous art, a lot of which packed quite a political punch.After the conference itself, Saturday was spent on a pleasant visit to Stradbroke Island. Which a popular and naturally beautiful place, the local cemetary bears witness to the fairly grim history of the place.
Time was also taken to catch up with
artbroken, bodgirl, greenglowgirl, and doomydoombear. Truly wonderful to finally meet you all in real life.The SAGE-AU Conference was an excellent affair. My paper was quite modest on a technical level (after all, there were people there who look after some of the largest and most powerful clusters in the world), but it was well-received. One person described it as "systems administration on the edge". Arjen Lentz's presentation increased the appeal of MySQL, Geoff Huston's keynote speech on the quantity of spam, probes and virus' was realistic (and pessimistic), and Simon Hackett spoke well on the evils (read anti-competitive practises) of Telstra.
There was an election for the two unfilled committee positions as well. With a promise to provide political lobbying I was elected along with a sysadmin journalist. Hmmm.... I see a pattern here.
Finally, I wish to bid a heartfelt fare well to a little old cat of enormous personality named Balbi, previously owned by
severina_242. At the ripe old age of 15.5 Balbi's kidneys packed it in, which is always the end of the line. severina_242 misses the I've slipped a little in my CCNA studies because of the conference (although I did read and test myself with TCP/IP for Windows 2000. Currently wading my way through semester three (intermediate routing and switching) and may have to force myself to complete semester three and four this coming seven days. To continue the madness I start an additional full-time course tomorrow (Certificate in Small Business Management). Hmmm... Better do something about that publishing cooperative sson as well..