04th Jul 2003
Zip-Locs, America, and Indiana Jones
Happy Fourth of July to fellow Yanks. I was going to write
something about how I am glad about our freedoms. I was
also thinking of writing something along the lines of
“you can’t outsource me” (because, as a 3rd generation
American, I have insight into our culture & society, and
blah blah blah).
But I decided to be quite non-lofty today. I’m surrounded by
Zip-Loc bags and all manner of gear. No, I don’t label the
bags. It’s just enough to know that my gear isn’t going
to get into some colossal spaghetti fight in the Cargo Hold,
where I am frightened by the ensuing mess when I get to
my hotel. Looking into the gear bag, in my best Indiana Jones voice:
“Snakes. Why did it have to be Snakes?”
Go ahead, throw all of your stuff together in your suitcase,
all intertwingly. I guffaw in your general direction!
Many Power adapters. Cables. Mice. A few Zip disks. Laptop #1 (borrowed
PowerBook). Laptop #2 (Toshiba, my “Plan B”). Nikon D1. Nikon 950.
Holga. Batteries. Palm Pilot. USB hub. CF Cards. A power strip. Braun coffee maker. Lava lamp. etc.
Ok, not the coffee maker and the lava lamp. I’m between lava lamps
at the moment.
No, clothes don’t get the same attention. Then again, they
don’t turn into self-organizing systems in my suitcase. They
behave (as I cast a glaring eye at a basket full of gear).
So anyway, my task next week is to write, write some more, and then go
back and write about how the writing went. I’ll be making daily
entries in my O’Reilly
weblog. I’ll be focusing on:
- PHP
- Day to Day Productivity (Eclipse, WebDAV, Jabber)
- Trends to Think About
I’m bearing in mind that others will be covering things like
Perl and Java pretty well. It’s a big conference, so
I’ll be constantly reminding myself to not go off in
too many directions (I love Perl and Java too, and I want
to learn Python, and, and … there’s only so many hours
in the day)
I’ll leave off with yet another mention of the OSCON Semi-Unofficial Wiki, and with a nod towards the more Perl-centric page. See some of youse there!
