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| Sunday, August 26, 2001 |
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News: the banal abounds 
Maybe a whole 'nuther planet
| | I remember some woman recently pointing to Eric S. Raymond and, not knowing who he was, remarking, "There's a happy guy." I never thought about it, but she was right. Eric is a happy guy. |
| | So what will Linux World Expo be without the levitating presence the King of Open Source? I can hardly imagine. But apparently there was some kind of screw-up (Eric says by IDG, which puts on the show), and he won't be there. Or on my panel on Wednesday, which sucks. |
| | Seems meaningful in some way. A year ago somebody would have paid to send him there, no matter what. But VA is hair-deep in trouble these days. |
| | Yet this is going to be the biggest LWE ever, I hear. I'm looking forward to seeing what that will be like. Clearly Linux is a lot bigger than the first generation of Linux companies could make it. Bu what else is it now? It'll be a shame not to have ESR there to help us make sense of it. |
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| | My office is half empty. My other office — the new one in my home — is more than full. Of boxes. And wires. And tapes. And bags of paper, electronics, CD-ROMs for who-knows-what. |
| | Now I'm trying to get ready to drive up to LinuxWorld tomorrow, in a beat-up car with no air conditioning, because the garage is still waiting for an epansion valve or something. They don't care a whole lot, since they believe a car this old and beat up has no business with air conditioning. But I don't want to buy a new car yet. I may be a little impulsive about computer and electronic stuff, but not about cars. The last time I made an impulse car purchase, I got my current hunk of junk. |
| | Anyway, I've got at least one more piece to write for LJ, plus all my packing and preparing, to do before my departure at 4am, a little more than 11 hours from now. |
| | But the stuff I need to gather is in all these bags and boxes. I've been looking through them for hours, putting together pieces of pieces. For example, I have my Handspring, but not the cradle. I have a crossover cable around here somewhere. Just saw it. But where? |
| | Anyway, that's what I'm dong right now. That and avoiding email. |
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