Musings from the bitbucket

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket Cycling | Wednesday October 28, 2009 | By jmcp

After the rather large effort which was the Bicycle Queensland Wilson HTM Brisbane to the Gold Coast Cycle Challenge (seen here via Nokia SportsTracker), I took a bit of time off to be less cycle-y. Also wanted to get a chunk of time together to give my...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket Cycling | Sunday October 04, 2009 | By jmcp

Soooo... last week was horrendous - absolutely no riding done, and I only managed a shade under 70km for the week before that (week 2). Work really kept me busy, with several 6am concalls and a bunch of concalls at other times too. So I took last Thursday and...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket baby | Thursday September 24, 2009 | By jmcp

This afternoon I heard, for the first time "CZM, NO!" from J. (It can only be a matter of time before I pull out the full name "NO" usage). C's been crawling around the dining room table where J's got her laptop setup, and she's been trying to play with the...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket bq bicycling fitness | Cycling | Monday September 21, 2009 | By jmcp

Progress towards my 100km/week goal is good so far. Last week's efforts included two spins around the Centenary Suburbs (14.0 and 18.8km), a long hard slog up the back road of Mt Coottha with Tim (39.5km) and a 47.2km trip to Kangaroo Point - all for a total...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket bicycling goals bq | Cycling | Friday September 18, 2009 | By jmcp

In the last few weeks I've gotten more serious about taking part in the Bicycle Queensland Wilson HTM Brisbane to the Gold Coast Cycle Challenge . It's a 100km jaunt from Southbank to Southport. I figured that I needed to be riding a lot more in order to...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket privacy 7pm project | General | Tuesday July 21, 2009 | By jmcp

I've been watching the 7pm Project on Channel 10, and I really wanted to send them some feedback on how they can make the show better. Chiefly, GET RID OF THE BLITTERING THAT BRACKETS A VIDEO GRAB. Unfortunately, you have to register with ten.com.au...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket Conferences | Monday July 13, 2009 | By jmcp

I'm really pleased to see that Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore 's ZFS deduplication keynote speech at Kernel Conference Australia gets a mention at The Register . I'd be even more pleased if they sent a representative to attend in person. Maybe next year!

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket General | Friday July 10, 2009 | By jmcp

Ten years ago today, J and I were married in front of our family and friends. We've gone through highs and lows, the rollercoaster of life, and we're more deeply in love and together and entwined than we thought possible all those years ago. J's mum is...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket Cycling | Tuesday July 07, 2009 | By jmcp

One of my facebook friends works for Nokia , and cycles a fair bit. I noticed recently that he's started using Nokia Sportstracker , and after seeing some examples of what it could do I decided I'd try it too. For my lunchtime ride today I started a...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket anniversary house | House | Thursday July 02, 2009 | By jmcp

Two years ago today, a very tired J and I arrived at the front door of our new home in Brisbane, and were delighted to walk into our own home. After so many years of renting it was a fantastic feeling to be able to walk in and know that yes, we could put a...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket queensland uq kca kernel conference university 2009 of australia brain brendan fishworks qbi institute gregg kca2009 | Conferences | Thursday June 25, 2009 | By jmcp

In case you weren't quite convinced about just how cool, uuuuber, and just plain old fantastic an opportunity Kernel Conference Australia is, then you should consider this. We've got one more speaker coming along: Brendan Gregg , member of the ...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket conference earlybird australia kernel | Conferences | Thursday June 11, 2009 | By jmcp

Just a short reminder that if you want to come to Kernel Conference Australia at the earlybird price of $195, then you've got until the end of this Friday, 12 June, to get your registration happening. If you're interested in any of these areas: ...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket Cycling | Monday June 08, 2009 | By jmcp

Today Tim and I celebrated the last public holiday in Queensland before Christmas by cycling up Mt Coottha . It was my first time going up the mountain (glad I'd put my slicks on last night), and boy oh boy did I suck! Haven't been out on the bike since...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket conference australia kca kernel | Conferences | Sunday May 24, 2009 | By jmcp

It's only one week before the earlybird registration period for Kernel Conference Australia closes. As a quick reminder, in addition to our excellent keynote speakers Jeff Bonwick, Bill Moore and Max Alt, here are the people who you'll be able to meet,...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket wet weather flood rain | General | Wednesday May 20, 2009 | By jmcp

So it's been a bit wet today: That's just the tail end of it. I've had to empty water from our pool three times in the last 12 hours, and I'm really hoping we're close to the end of this current rain cell: That's since 9am...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket conference kernel kca2009 agenda registrations australia | Conferences | Tuesday May 12, 2009 | By jmcp

About 15 minutes ago I was ecstaticly pleased to see that the KCA2009 website had gone live with the confirmed agenda , speaker bios and most importantly, registrations .

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket General | Sunday May 10, 2009 | By jmcp

This time last year we'd known for about a week that J was pregnant, and while we'd been elated to get that news, the knowledge that the first trimester is the one where most pregnancies fail (if they're going to fail) made it a little difficult to be happy on...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket baby | Thursday May 07, 2009 | By jmcp

Today we started solids:

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket conference kernel kca2009 australia | Conferences | Wednesday May 06, 2009 | By jmcp

After a lot of back-n-forth in the committee, we've finally come up with a list of presentations that we have accepted for the 16 speaking slots at Kernel Conference Australia 2009. Hopefully all the presenters will get back to me asap so I can finalise the...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket australia kca conference kernel kca2009 | Conferences | Monday May 04, 2009 | By jmcp

I'm pleased to announce that the official Call for Papers for Kernel Conference Australia 2009 is now closed. Over. Finito! We've had a great response to the CfP, and the review committee will be meeting in coming days to nut out just which presentations...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket kernel australia conference kca2009 | Conferences | Monday April 27, 2009 | By jmcp

I woke up with a shock this morning, realising that there's less than ONE WEEK to go before the KCA2009 Call for Papers closes! That's THIS FRIDAY! If you're going to submit a presentation proposal, please get it in as soon as possible - you don't...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket kca2009 | Conferences | Friday March 27, 2009 | By jmcp

I'm really pleased to announce that the KCA2009 conference website is now active. Registrations open on 4 May 2009. The Call for Papers / (original CfP page) is still open and we're really keen to get your presentation suggestions. We're also very keen...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket General | Monday March 23, 2009 | By jmcp

After I upgraded to snv_110, I was having a heckuvatime trying to figure out why my Roller instance wasn't behaving properly. I saw scads and scads of java stacktrace errors, along with SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw...

/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket Conferences | Friday March 06, 2009 | By jmcp

More movement at the station when it comes to KCA2009 - we've now got a Call For Papers which I've started emailing to various people and groups. I'm still on the hunt for sponsorship to help things along, so if your org can help, please contact me...