not-quite-old-yet

That I am, today (in Australia, that is – tomorrow for you Americans).
And since people always ask kids, the question I tend to ask on someone’s birthday is this:

“What do you want to be, when you grow up?”

Go ahead, think about it and put your answer in a comment!

The Hammock has Landed

Three things you need in a new house:

  • doorbell
  • fish & chips dinner on the floor
  • hammock

Fab – particularly since the current house couldn’t have the hammock (no covered area outside…) so I’ve had to do without for nearly a year. Shocking.

CfP: Dynamic Languages World Conf (May 26-28, Karlsruhe DE)

I’m usually pretty good with these things – I get a CfP invite and I blog about it to let more people know. I completely forgot in this case, must’ve been the xmas season. Luckily the CfP is still open for a few more days, so you can still get in a proposal if you’re interested: http://dlw-europe.com/konferenzen/dlw08/cfp/index.html

This new conference is run by my friend Masoud Kamali of S&S Verlag, who is also responsible for the International PHP Conference (Frankfurt, every November) and quite a few other events. The Dynamic Languages conf will be held in Karlsruhe, that’s just a bit further South from Frankfurt – easy to reach via ICE (high speed) train.

This conference is about scripting languages and related frameworks, optimisation/scaling, security and such. So, there’s no specific database topic even. I made one submission which I believe fits well within the conference scope. We’ll see.

Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law

A TED talk from March this year, but just posted last month: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187
Great stuff – take the time to view it!

OSDC 2007 Brisbane – starting!

Open Source Developers’ Conference 2007 Brisbane started today with tutorials, and other speakers and delegates arriving. Wireless working and at speed, all running pretty smoothly, catering okidoki… all appears well in preparation for tomorrows real hords (200+ people). All good!