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Ah, the grand and glorious day dawns (Suppose I could go down for the keynote...)


Kept waking up last night thinking of things that I'd like to tweak in the presentation. Going to do that now. Guido's keynote is in one minute... think I'll wind up skipping it.

I'm told Alex has been packing them in, so I can only assume that I'll ride his coat-tails to having far more ...

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PyCon 2005 kicks off... (Like there aren't already 300 reports of its birth)


We wound up taking a few detours on the way down yesterday, so about 12.5 hours on the road. The hotel was rather less well appointed than we'd been hoping for $198/night, for instance, no internet access available.

Did my session of watching the front desk this morning, and managed to miss all of the ...

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Figuring out the PyCon schedule (When exactly do I present?)


I've not actually sat down yet to figure out to which talks I want to go. Guess I'll do that now (even though I'm not quite packed yet):

Keynote Python on the .NET Platform 9:30 Wed
Developing Responsive GUI Applications Using HTML and HTTP 2:30 Wed
Intuition and Python Programming - the Python Visual Sandbox ...

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That was the sound of a day popping! (All gone...)


The meeting didn't go all day, but pretty close. After that I wound up spending an hour writing up notes from it for everyone involved.

Now on to the PyCon packing... but wait... a client has decided to move a fairly large, largely un-tested new project live because there was a snafu somewhere and they ...

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Presentation is in good shape (Most of today's notes integrated, flow working fairly well, length could use some work...)


Spent the bulk of the day (when not on the phone with Natasha or attending a relative's dedication ceremony) working on the presentation. I'm pretty much satisfied with the current state, not because it's perfect but because I could stand up with it today and do a decent presentation, everything from here on out is ...

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I love it when there's a problem with a booking (Really, it's such a joy...)


Called the hotel this evening "just in case", to be sure that they knew about the reservation. They couldn't find me in their database. They couldn't even process the confirmation number hotels.ca had given me.

Interestingly, hotels.ca doesn't seem to have any phone customer support people, so I have to go through their web-form interface. ...

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Presentation draft 1 finished (Seems fairly reasonable...)


Final screen count on the first draft is 45 slides, which is a bit long if I take as long as normal, but I'm going for a much faster style (maybe 1/2 or 1/3 the information on any given slide compared to normal). The slides are not particularly heavy on the "how to use them" ...

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A day of work, a day of sleep (Back to the presentation again...)


Did quite a bit of work on the presentation on the way up to customer's site yesterday when I ran out of things to write up for the meeting. Meeting was all-day (6-1/4 hours), and by the time I got back home (11-1/2 hours after I left) I was ready for bed.

This afternoon I've ...

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Up at some ungodly hour tomorrow (Today went well, though still no movement on presentation...)


Today's work was ~1/2 prep for a meeting on Monday about a time-critical, but fairly small project for ACI, and 1/2 cleanup of the Cinemon codebase. I dropped 60+ files from the project that were basically just old-code relics hanging around. There's still a few sub-packages that I didn't remove because I figure I may ...

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Why don't I just find some university somewhere that'll give room, board and computer for teaching? (To need only think, teach, and grow... with occasional faculty meetings)


So I wound up spending the whole work-day on PySNMP and TwistedSNMP (after I finally got home from the long meeting and getting a haircut). Turns out I broke compatibility with the official PySNMP when I released the last TwistedSNMP version. Oops, fixed that, also put out a snapshot of the patched PySNMP so people ...

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