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A blog about life, linux, networking, photography, and Perl

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone. I hope every one has a great year, and decides to do things a little different this year. I’m gonna try to keep my life a little more organized, and to get in shape.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, January 4, 2005

Travelling and Hurricanes

Three hurricanes in a year and we’re still looking at more.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Friday, September 10, 2004

Linux World Days 1-3

Jeez, I keep forgetting to write about LinuxWorld.. First of all, sitting on a bed and using the laptop gets very uncomfortable after about 20 minutes in one position.

The weather has been great here.. high 50’s at night and high 60’s in the daytime.. The conference has been great, got so much free stuff, im going to have to get a box for all this stuff and check it as baggage. HP Announced this morning that they’ll be selling linux laptops pre-installed with SUSE 9.1. I thought that was pretty neat. After two days of drawings, I have yet to win the Sharp Zarus. One more chance tomorrow.. Intel had a pretty cool party last night, they had a guy with a chainsaw doing an ice sculpture of an “intel inside” logo.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Thursday, August 5, 2004

Linux World Arrival

Made it to San Francisco this afternoon for Linux World. The weather is real nice, about 68 degrees right now.. The hotel is decent, but the wireless seems to be flaky, it’s acting like a linksys router or something.. every minute or so it drops me. I’ve got the same issues in linux and windows with both my broadcom b/g minipci and my orinoco gold.. so im using my orinoco with the externa mag mount antenna.. good thing i brought it, found another access point not owned by the hotel, which provides a much more stable connection, just a weak signal.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Monday, August 2, 2004

YAPC Day 3 and out

Day three was good.. I really enjoyed Damian’s talk.. Overall good conference this year.. the University at Buffalo was a great place to host it. They had wireless everywhere, and plenty of places to eat on campus.. Go to tour the supercomputing lab. That was fun. Went to Niagra falls last night, and hopped the bridge to Canada..

Anyways.. I’m in the Buffalo airport, gotta get some food and hop on a place to Cleveland, OH, then to Houston, and I’m home..

Posted by Michael Palmer on Saturday, June 19, 2004

YAPC Day 2

YAPC day 2 going on.. I’m listening in on “Advanced Regexs” had a sub for lunch, and two cookies. Uhh thats it for now.. just keeping the site up to date.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Thursday, June 17, 2004

YAPC Day 1

Well, I’m here at YAPC 2004. Sitting here on the wireless, listening to the keynotes and Perl upcoming releases speech and such.

The hotel SUCKS!! The University Inn, in Buffalo, NY is horrible customer service wise. I got in last night and they said “Hey, you were supposed to be here yesterday, we canceled your reservation.” So they stuck me in a damn sofa bed for the night, and basically told me its my fault. Even though I have a confirmation email stating that my room has been reserved for the 15th and not the 14th!!! These people need a bitch slappin!

Posted by Michael Palmer on Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Michael blogs here about random stuff. He's a network engineer, Perl hacker, and photographer.

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