Czajkowski

I had a very boring lunch hour today, made yummy scrambled eggs with ham on toast and a large mug of tea.  Now what, not in the mood to go out side as I may not come back in it’s so sunny out there.

I was curious on the Yahoo V Google search so decided to have some fun at lunch, though as one of the charming folks in the #ubuntu-uk channel “If that’s what you call fun … sheesh”. Anyway I chose 4 things very simply Laura Czajkowski, Ossbarcamp and something not related to me but I enjoy Ubuntu UK Podcast and finally I asked in channel for a topic any topic, “Pubs” was the final one. The reason behind the first two topics was I was curious what the results would be and had an idea already what Google would return.  The final two were just random ones that I could compare the results from.

I’m a little shocked over the disparaging results returned.  At present I run Karmic, and once I get a chance will upgrade my laptop run lucid and  then switch to Yahoo for a while as long as results improve as at present the results aren’t great for yahoo compared to Google.

Laura Czajkowski Google Results

Laura Czajkowski Yahoo Results

Ossbarcamp Google Results

Ossbarcamp Yahoo Results

UUPC Google Results

UUPC Yahoo Results

Pubs  Google Results

Pubs Yahoo Results

All of the results in a larger form are HERE

I had a pretty amazing weekend down home last weekend.  I was asked back to give  a talk as part of a weekend of talks that took place at my old University. It was a great honour and rather amusing at the same time.  Years ago I had set up the Skynet talks, where you’d invite a Skynet member back and members of the Industry.

Friday night kicked off in the stables, a flash back from my college days. We have two pubs on campus and a small bar. Walking into the Stables bar it was a flash back to the 90’s music.  All of the cheesy head wrecking songs that you know once your heard them the lyrics were going to be in your head for the night.

Clearly my age showed as I couldn’t hear myself and moved out to the courtyard to have conversations, albeit it was a bit chilly I could hear the music and have a conversations so worked out better.

Saturday morning, I was up in time to go into the Market for breakfast and collected Matt Zimmerman who kindly agreed to come over and take part in the days talks.  After a cup of tea in the what looked to be someones kitchen and listening to a Trad Session at 11am we were fed and set up for the day headed to UL for the talks.

1. “Talk 1″ - Paul O’Connor
2. “Google Summer of Code” - Jimmy O’Regan
3. “So you want to build a Hackerspace” - Jeffrey Roe
4. “Ubuntu Inside Out” - Matt Zimmerman
5. “To Ubuntu and Beyond – Where individual participation can take you” - Laura Czajkowski
6. “An introduction to CouchDB” - David Coallier

This time I was a little less nervous talking, but not by much! I gave a similar talk to the one last month but this time was a bit slower and updated slides as I knew the target audience had a clue about Ubuntu and Open Source.

Matt gave his talk with such ease and clarity and it was very enjoyable. All of the talks during the day were interesting and nice to bring people together. they covered a range of topics so there was something there for most people. Students came from Cork, Dublin and Galway so that was great that it wasn’t just one college having these talks. It was a nice way to spend an  afternoon. David and his entertaining ways gave his talk on CouchDB, and very nicely obliged to get us to the pub for the last half of the Ireland V England Rugby game.

It was great to be back again and I had a lovely weekend. glad I gave the talk, and I believe it was recorded and will be up at some point.  Here are the slides at least.

I was curious and tweeted how do people name their machines, is there logic behind or just random.  I tend to chose characters or themes in movies/shows. It started out with cypher being my login on skynet my computer society back in college.  I’ve had Enigma, Matrix, Bigbox, currently my toshiba is Cypher which is running Karmic, and Gorgamon which is the mini 9 running Hardy.

Some of the answers that came in were:  from Daniel darkstar and sunlight, JD chose his from Egyptian gods Isis on 8.10, sekhmet on 9.04 & baal as a win7 vm, and Mikkel chose his from List of Roman Emperors.

How do you do yours

Yeah! I’m moving to Dublin to start a new job in the New Year.  I shall be working for Quest Computing Really looking forward to it and now I shall be able to go to more events in Dublin.!

Really need to find accomodation though so going to live with the sister, this should be entertaining! 

Be warned

So I stumbled upon pix photo album site. Had a bit of a look around and signed up so you can see some of my pictures here. Firstly I must say signing up was a large PITA! I know some forms let you away with minimal information but this form required all details but didn’t say that they were compulsory. Nowadays forms have “Enter the text you see in the image” unfortunately I found the text very unclear and only after a failed attempt did it look clearer.

Finally logged in and you see this

Join Date: 1 hour ago
Last Login: on 1997-07-12

This their date stamp is *ahem* off my a wee bit.

But I shall have a gander around and see what it’s like, nice to see an alternative to yahoo flicker.

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Update:

Thanks for the heads up! This has been fixed in this morning's build, and
should be on the site in a few hours..

So the problem should be resolved now