that’s whacked

initial impressions and random ramblings

Saturday, Nov 4. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris, OpenSource, Travel

got in to the hotel last night @ around 20:30.

• stayed awake the entire flight (watched 4 movies, synced up the PG gate to snv50, live-upgraded to snv51, reinstalled frkit, and failed miserably to write better documentation on the Teamware->Mercurial bridge. note to all fr4k users: lugging 3 batteries in your carry-on is totally worth it)

• once i got to the hotel, i did some much-needed stretching/not-really-yoga (i say not-really-yoga, because i don’t think traditionally yoga is practiced while drinking beer) to get my back unkinked from the flight.

• paid the ridiculous 25,000 W/day (~$28 US) for Internet access (what a rip-off. i should see when dp/jimgris get here if we can get adjacent rooms and use my travel wireless router i brought).

• wandered into the COEX Mall late last night (~11pm?) to try and find some grub (of the edible kind, not the boot loader kind. wow. it was still pretty busy. ate some soba, and wandered through the arcade, where i had the following random three observations:

  • is it common for couples to wear matching or identical shirts/outfits?
  • girls play arcade games.
  • why is everyone so dressed up?

• i punched-in to Sun’s network, latency to sfbay is pretty reasonable… and was greeted by a flurry of messages through friday of various opensolaris.org machines being down, non-responsive, etc. etc. looks like i picked a good day to miss work

anyway. it’s 7:37am sunday morning here. i just had some great coffee at the breakfast buffet downstairs and i’m waiting for a friend to get here (who also happens to coincidentally be in Seoul this week) so we can go checkout the city.

i’m torn. should i go to the knife museum? or the kimchee museum? both are supposed to be wonderfully weird and wacky.

OpenSolaris Day @ Sun Tech Days in Seoul

Wednesday, Nov 1. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

I’ll be at the Sun Tech Days event in Seoul all of next week. Specifically I’ll be presenting the “Building & Deploying OpenSolaris” presentation on OpenSolaris Day on Wednesday. If anyone is around and wants to meet up, please drop me a note

I’ll be there with Dan Price and Jim Grisanzio, two of the movers and shakers in the OpenSolaris world… so come on over.. it’s a free event, and we’ll have some good swag!