I picked my mother up from the airport and took her out to dinner tonight. After that we watched the fireworks over Darling Harbour and went for a walk. At no point did our conversation reference software.

linux.conf.au

Submit something! Don't let the bit about "writing a paper" stop you. This is a hackers' conference after all. Code, get your ass over here, code, crap on for an hour or so, code, party. Pretty simple really, and if you can string a few words together for the proceedings, all the better.

http://linux.conf.au/

January 17-20, 2001
Sydney, Australia

Call for Participation ... abstracts due Sep 30 2000.

Get in there with alan, davem, tridge, rusty, raster and the rest. Spend a week talking code, drinking Aussie beer and going to the beach. It's going to fucking well rock.

Hacking

One of the joys of hacking sound stuff is that people submit WAV files as bug reports. Today's was a recording from radio 2MMM Sydney of a contestant who couldn't spell ACDC. The file was sent to me by a guy in France (and yes, it crashes libaudiofile).

The most bizarre one I ever got was a guy who had recorded himself gargling Jingle Bells, with his kid laughing and yelling at him in the background. (He recorded it in xwave and it fucked up in sweep). It's interactions like that that make everything we do worthwhile.