Finally back from Austin, TX. Went down to see IBM and some of their latest technologies. Very cool stuff. Their commitment to Open Source is not a marketing scheme either. That is a Good Thing (tm).

Did lots of Austin stuff, like dinner at chuy's, dinner at waterloo ice house, frequent trips to Amy's Ice Cream, and a Round Rock Express game. That rocked.

Forgot how much I like Austin, though the heat is dreadful. The great beer there helps though.

Music

Positively loaded up on CD's at Antone's and Waterloo. I am now diggin new stuff from Rollins Band, 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Joe Ely and The Texas Plainsmen.

Statistics

I always knew stat would come back to haunt me.... I am testing some stuff and need to make sure I gather the right kind/amount of perf stats. Uggh. Had to buy a book ("The Pocket Statistician") to help me out.

Abby

Got 8 rolls of film developed. Should be posted on the website soon.

Tux.Org

Rolled out the new website for Tux.Org. Getting loads of feedback, mostly good. Yeah. Glad that project is mostly done. Still need to add a search engine and sitemap to the site.

Coding?

Read the Perl/Tk book from O'Reilly, and part of Havoc's Gtk development book last week during the trip. Started some perl/tk demos yesterday. Fun and easy.

not coding, but fun anyway.... I installed BeOS. It rocks, but won't replace Linux in my heart. Very slick. And the software devel for it seems to be coming along nicely. Damn, we have such a great community.

Benson

Ah jeez. Who let that freakin' benson in here. :) Hey brother, welcome to the Machine. Missing you here in NoVa.