Practice practice practice

Still practicing my talk for this afternoon. Thanks to much pumping up from my friend Jay who’s been telling everybody at the meeting he sees, I’m feeling much pressure to make this a good one to live up to the hype. It’s making me nervous. The morning sessions got skipped to get in more rehearsal time plus a few last minute tweaks to the talk.

Did take a little bit of time out to scout out the exhibit area. Saw a few neat things with some innovative mouse designs from a company called Contour Design. They’ll be worth checking out in more detail later.

Anyway, back to practicing.

Off to SIIM 2007

In a few hours I’ll be heading off to the SIIM 2007 meeting where I’ll be giving my first conference talk ever!

Spent the last few months putting it together and the last few days reviewing and practicing it. Don’t know what kind or how big of an audience will be there so I’m a little nervous. I’ll probably spend most of the flight up there reviewing and going over the talk some more.

More later from the meeting.

Star Trek meets LOLcats

Oh, this is too funny.

LOLTrek

We're in ur NCC_1701

Ok, enough time wasted this morning. Time to get to work.

Found via Wil Wheaton

Oooo, MT4

MT 4 is out a little earlier than I expected and is now open source no less (even more unexpected). I’m eagerly anticipating getting it running to kick some tires, but that will have to wait until next week when I get back. My new Fedora 7 desktop will make the perfect test platform too.

Linux desktop plunge

With Fedora 7, I decided to take the plunge and go Linux for my work desktop.

Should be a fun experiment. Already got printers added, email set up and connections to my other servers in place. About the only significant problems I’m anticipating are getting some of my spreadsheets converted over to OpenOffice. I think there are a few that use Excel-specific features that I’ll have to work around. It’s going to be a slow process that’s just going to take some time.

I’m liking what I’ve got going so far.