LUV AGM and More Courses, Politics to Philosophy

It was the Linux Users of Victoria AGM on Tuesday night. Ryan Kelly's talk on Cross Compiling for the Web was excellent. Whilst I loathe Javascript on aesthetic grounds, I accept its functionality, and this was a most encouraging talk in that regard. We didn't get quorum (as that required almost 150 people), but the meeting will be adjourned to Software Freedom Day. For the first three days of next week I have another set of Linux and HPC courses to run for the RMIT SPACE centre. Apropos this I have also 'blogged about some R library quirks and Parallel and MPI Octave. For next month, an abstract for my talk at OSDC in Hobart is now available on their website.

On the political side, Friday night was a dinner with Damien and Rae Kingsbury a fairly astute pair of minds, and with Anthony L., and Daye G., with the main topic of conversation being rebuilding (ye gods, yet again) an acceptable policy for asylum seekers in Labor Party policy after Labor for Refugees was routed at the last National Conference. On the philosophical side, today presented at the Unitarians on A Modern Reconstruction of Buddhist Karma. Afterwards introduced Adam Ford presenting at The Philosophy Forum on the topic The Coming Technological Singularity - Rapture of the Nerds? Or the End of the Human Race?, which provided some very good justifications of concern on the malicious artificial intelligence.