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I think I’ve been missed. Once The Dog was liberated from my case, they wanted to meet the new addition – Bobby (as in Ewing) – a White bear from the Lone Star State (bottom right of the picture). Bill is also unusually happy about his Hotsos cap (or perhaps being informed that one of… Continue reading Home Sweet Home

Many thanks to David Kurtz for taking photos of a much higher quality than mine and putting them on Flickr. There are some funny photos there, including a couple of Moans Nogood helping me to distribute free beer but, judging by later photos, he appears to have consumed it all himself 😉 (Please, please don’t… Continue reading Hotsos 2006 Photos

Sorry I didn’t blog much yesterday but I ended up having some things to take care of in the morning that I wasn’t expecting, both presentation-related and not. In the end, I didn’t manage to attend very much. I feel I’ve let everyone down 😉 One of my friends sent me an SMS to ask… Continue reading Hotsos – Day 3 – Wrap-up

Parallel Execution and the Magic of 2 That’s my second presentation, at 2:15 today. I’ve thought long and hard about this one and hope I’ve made the right decision. I was concerned about how to encapsulate a 50+ page paper into a one hour slot. I hate presentations which are full of detail, rushed, badly… Continue reading How Many Slaves?

In the afternoon yesterday there was a schedule change and so I attended Karen Morton’s ‘When the Truth is not Persuasive’. This was about personality types and communications skills which is a subject I’m always interested in and I thought she was a very engaging speaker. I couldn’t work out which personality type I was… Continue reading Hotsos – Day 2.5

Well, that’s the first presentation over with and I think it went pretty well with one major exception. I bought myself a nice new clicker with a timing device and then forgot to switch the timer on! I was so flustered that I confused myself into thinking I was due to finish at 10:30, not… Continue reading Hotsos – Day 2.0

Or is it Day 8? or 3? or 42? I know this whole jetlag saga is getting tedious, but I have clear evidence it’s true. I just made it up to my room from the party, hoping to take a last look at the presentation or sleep. Either would be good. I think I must… Continue reading Hotsos – Day 1.75

Just having a quick break between the afternoon session’s and this evening’s party. I meant to say before that lunch was pretty nice, as all of the food has been so far. After that, I popped in to see Julian Dyke’s RAC presentation. Here’s a picture of him and a couple of volunteers demonstrating cache… Continue reading Hotsos – Day 1.5

Well, that’s the morning over with and I’m enjoying myself. First up was breakfast – cereal, pastries, fruit, juice, coffee. It’s a nice touch, gets everyone networking early and almost justifies the 8:30 start 😉 Then at 8:30, after a brief introduction of music and photos of past events, Gary Goodman took the stage to… Continue reading Hotsos – Day 1.0

That’s the title of my first presentation at 9:45 on Tuesday morning – tomorrow. I thought I’d write a brief blog about the presentation to help any Hotsos attendees decide if you want to attend. The first thing to say is that this is the presentation I’ve given previously at UKOUG 2004, the UKOUG Unix… Continue reading Tuning and Tracing Parallel Execution : An Introduction