Stories from the land of Rob

Well, my microblogging of GUADEC failed miserably, mainly because I didn’t seem to be able to get a DHCP lease

I hope identi.ca gets SMS support by next time. Either that or maybe just one conference where the network doesn’t keel over and die at the sight of a few hundred developers.

I was kinda surprised to find quite a few people who didn’t know about stow. If you ever need to make install something, use this.

The sides from my talk are now up on wizbit.org. The wiki’s pretty empty at the moment, but we’re slowly filling it up…

Frederico’s talk had some bits that reminded me of a “Topaz” desktop design that came up on desktop-devel-list back in ‘06. It wasn’t given much time of day back then though. Check it out.

The concept of the computer as Personal Assistant appeared in a few forms this year. Concepts like it helping you organize your information and time and managing your attention. Its obvious there’s been a few threads of thought on this bubbling away for a while now and this year you could see ideas starting to crystallize. Very cool!

Its obvious we’re going to need some good query capabilities over large RDF trees. To my simple mind this seems to basically involv unification over tuples, so prolog keeps popping into my head. Has anyone checked out SeRQL?

For my own benefit (I have a terrible memory) I’ve decided to microblog GUADEC this year - assuming that there’s some working network (Yeah, its a big assumption..). So I’ve got myself an account on identi.ca. Enjoy!

Right, its that wonderful time of year again - I’m all packed and ready to head to the airport. Painfully my plane lands at 02:10 tomorrow, so if anyone else is landing at the same time, feel free to seek me out - I’ll be coming off the flight from Frankfurt.

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone again and to giving my talk. Believe it or not, it’ll be the first talk I’ve ever given at GUADEC! I’m also going to try to rope in John and Mark to do some bits of it - tag team styleee. I just hope we can get the demo running in time..

See you all there!