Took 5 hours from Teviot to my place in London by air. I’ll probably go by train next time I visit Scotland. Though the views from the aeroplane window in seat 1A coming in from the west to LCY were AMAZING. I saw Picadilly, the gerkin, my house in E3 4QJ and other spectacular stuff.
Got a bit of work done in DebCamp, not so much in DebConf. Though I attended quite a few BoFs and what-not
Made new friends and it was great to see some old ones! The Debian community is a friendly bunch.
I’ll miss the Indian food at the mosque. I won’t miss the cafeteria, except for the nice staff
My room mates were all super cool. No loud snorers except myself. Phew! The hostel and staff were good too.
I learnt a couple of vim tricks. Fixing the default way it auto completes with the elusive “wildmode” option .vimrc
I switched with `chsh` to zsh-beta. .zshrc. Hopefully shared history with screen will work behave now.
I learnt my external USB2 drive is just as fast as the internal one with hdparm speed testing
I learnt more about distributed SCM with git and bzr. I’ll probably try and learn both.
Night venue was cool. Adjoining Forest cafe was funny.
Edinburgh is a pleasant city.
Was cool to demo Webconverger at DebianDay and tell people about it. I’ve received some good feedback and with Debian live improving like it is, it will only get better.
I can’t believe the last 2 weeks went so quickly. There is a lot more to say, though I’ll keep this blog entry short.
