6 Apr 2011 crhodes   » (Master)

Hey, what happened to that resolution to blog weekly about being entrepreneurial? Well, it's been a long few months: course mostly delivered; PhD student approximately completed (well done, Ben); plenty of extra time to actually be entrepreneurial. Before I sink back down into the mire of too much to do and not enough time, an update!

I went to the 4th European Lisp Symposium, held at the Technical University of Hanburg-Harburg. It was great. Compared with last year, when I was Programme Chair, and volcano eruptions closed most of European airspace, leading to scrambles to find alternative keynote speakers and general stress about whether there were going to be any attendees at all, this was a breeze. Sure, I participated by reviewing a few contributions, but the event itself snuck up on me – I found myself on the Monday remembering that straight after my teaching duties on Wednesday, I needed to dash to the airport to catch a plane. Very pleasant; thanks to Didier Verna and Ralf Möller for making things so smooth that I could just turn up and assume that the event would be running perfectly – I know how much work it takes to get to that point.

It was good to catch up there with some of the wider Lisp world; there were about 60 attendees, including a solid transatlantic contingent. I couldn't quite allow myself to relax completely, and so ended up giving a lightning talk about R – a useful warmup for my slightly more substantial talk (slides; audio recording appears to have failed) at the Zürich Stuff'n'Lisp User Group. The cuteness of adding two lattice objects together (in graphical presentation form) to get a new graph combining the two originals seems never to get old, though since it's in fact six months old I did take the time this morning to commit and push the accumulated fixes to my public swankr git repository.

Right. Back to work work work fun hacking.

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