So first there was the XML Summer School. This year was my sixth, and it was really great to hang out with chums old and new. I love that
I left feeling not only invigorated and inspired, but also a part of a fun and friendly community.
The following week, we moved house. Twelve days later, we’re almost completely unpacked, and the important things are done. We have wireless, positioned nicely so that virtually the whole house gets “Excellent” coverage. Thanks to my father, we have a NSLU2 running Debian and acting as our low-power-consumption file and mail server. (For those that are interested, I’m getting access from my Windows machines using Xming to actually interact with the machine, and WebDrive to map a drive onto the file system.) And we have an area entirely dedicated to Lego. Yes, this might be my dream house.
(We’re also only a 40 minute drive from Heathrow, 30 minute train from Waterloo, so if anyone I know’s visiting the UK and wants to drop in, you’re more than welcome. There’s even a spare room.)
And amongst all this, I had to record a virtual presentation on Creole for Overlap day at Extreme. The sound quality’s not great, but it’s a reasonable 10-minute introduction, I think. It sounds like they got good attendance: will someone who was there please post about it?
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Slides?
Are your slides available anywhere? -m
Re: And she's back
But did you, as promised (www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/26#comment-3177), take the Fly Pentop to the XML Summer School, and did you learn anything new about it?
Re: And she's back
Actually, I forgot to take it, and then felt so bad about having forgotten that I got Bill to post it to the hotel. So I did manage to show it to a couple of people, in particular John Kemp (who’d made the comment). Didn’t learn anything new about it, no.