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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

Well, that’s me registered. Despite all my best efforts to get some sleep this afternoon and hopefully get myself back in sync, it didn’t happen. I went for a liquid lunch with David Aldridge who turns out to be the nice guy and cantankerous old British b*gger I expected and then spent the afternoon waiting… Continue reading Hotsos – Day 0

Better than half-way distance, but not time. Having paid my $6.95 for wireless access in Newark Terminal A, I figured I might as well blog. That’s my second Continental experience in two months and I have to say I’m not too impressed. Direct from Edinburgh is good, but that’s about it. Still, I hate moaning… Continue reading Half-way there

Including the time spent on Tripod’s blogging tool (the one that didn’t record comments properly), I started this a year ago today. I could do a review, but my head is still full of matters parallel and I’ve just had to stick a flowery shirt in the washing machine when I discovered that Monday’s Gala… Continue reading Happy Birthday Blog

Prompted by Mark Rittman’s blog, I downloaded the interview with Jonathan Lewis from DBAZine. I have an iPod-compatible hi-fi in the car. Once I’d got over the shock of DBAZine displaying in my car and stopped wondering where my life was going, it was a very interesting and forthright interview as I expected. Just one… Continue reading I just drove to work with Jonathan Lewis