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mark :: blog :: bryce
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Got
interviewed for redhat.com
- I was initiated into the need to carry around more
paper
- had a few days of fun with Bryce and
other US folks. Looking in the US for magazines on how to
do interior US home design, although all I found was
imported magazines showing how to make your US home look
English. Grass, greener, etc.
- Went through far too many security points at airports
and found that it's really important to make sure your
laptop is charged when they want to inspect it
- spent some time with the Mitre CVE people
History is fun, I just finished off screenshots and the
history of ModPlay.
Yes, I really did share a house with Bryce
in 1991!
My last week here so decided to go
up to the mountains with Bryce who for
some reason decided to take his laptop. After my recent
fun with cars and Durham Police I let Phil do all the
driving, which I don't think he appreciated. I found a new xsl parser, libxslt and libxml, part
of the gnome project, seems to be quicker than Xalan and
has the advantage of being in C and not C++ (I'm so used to
release engineering for 30 platforms where even a working C
compiler is sometimes a stretch). Spent a good 6 hours on
Saturday failing to get it working right with Perl the way
I want it to, seems to be a strange memory problem that
goes away everytime I turn on debugging. I was going to buy a Earthmate GPS receiver for my laptop
until I read that it doesn't output standard NMEA format
data so it won't work with Autoroute. I'm still looking
for a GPS solution so the next time I'm coming back from
Scotland and get stuck for 4 hours on the M6 without a map
I can find an alternative route.
So back to Glasgow for a long weekend away, think
Bryce will miss me? Booked a rental car
though Alamo who had not only lost my reservation but did't
have a car for me, so instead of a £122 rental the
best I could get was £400 from Hertz, most annoyed
about the fact that Alamo didn't seem at all bothered.
Hadn't realised how much I would miss the UK though, proper
bread, proper fish and chips, people understanding my
idioms.
Spent some more time playing with XML-RPC and learnt enough
Python on the plane to be dangerous.
Well i'm off at the end of this week for a stint in North
Carolina. Bryce is another ex-
pat there, but he seems as bored as toast. I'll have to
keep myself busy and working and finally get around to
doing all those fun things with Apache I've always wanted
to do
I think I'm going to miss: Real Chocolate (Hershey
chocolate is gross), Real Fish&Chips (you can sometimes
find a good approximation in Irish bars), my new car I just
bought 2 months ago. I'm also leaving behind Tracy, who'll
only get to see me once a month :(
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