dedicated PX table at lunch<\/a>, for those who want to discuss things in a bit more depth. I’ve sat on one of these in the past at the Unix SIG and it certainly increases the user community feel to an event, so I’m quite a fan. Of course, it means that I need to time cigarette breaks, lunch and conversation, but I’ll do my best. (I might slip out of the last pre-lunch presentation a bit early!)<\/p>\nI’m travelling down tomorrow so that I can spend the evening talking to Jeff Moss about PX and Lisa Dobson can throw her drink over me (at least I think it’s that way round). I think I’ve probably promised Pete Finnigan an argument about security researchers too, but I’ll probably just hide in the toilets 😉<\/p>\n
I’m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The more observant among you will have noticed that Derek Jr. has taken temporary leave, to be replaced by my ugly mug again. It must mean that there’s a conference coming up. I’ll be presenting the Parallel Execution Slaves paper at the UKOUG Northern Server Technology Day this Thursday. 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