Blayne Sucks

Ok, so I have been super busy over the last couple weeks and didn’t make the time to post here. I knew that I would have to approach this as something that I simply make five or ten minutes for on some days if I wanted it to be maintained regularly, but somehow I have failed to do that. Anyhow, here I am posting again and I wanted to update a few things.

The ESPY results are in. Peyton Manning won for best NFL player and best record breaking performance for his 49 touchdown pass season.

Lance Armstrong is about to win his 7th straight Tour de France. This was obviously huge news in Austin the past couple weeks.

Sandra Day O’Connor has commented on John Roberts Jr. whom President Bush announced as the nominee to replace her on the Supreme Court. Personally, this pick was an extremely good political move and fits well with me. It’s hard to say exactly how Roberts will be on the Supreme Court because of his lack of a record as a Judge, but you can say that about any potential Supreme Court Justice. I also tend to like picking a younder justice, not just because they can serve longer, but also because this particular court is so old.

I’m currently at the Ottawa Linux Symposium and having a fantastic time. Yesterday I went to the talks on the Novell Linux Kernel Debugger, Len Brown’s presentation on ACPI, TWIN, Martin J Bilgh’s presentation on memory mapping, and of course Jonathon Corbet’s presentation about a roadmap for the 2.6 kernel. Today I went to the nfsim talk, Trusted Computing and Linux, Building Murphy-compatible Embedded Linux Systems, eCryptfs, Kdump, and an impromptu session on Embedded Linux concerns. Obviously, this is a lot to talk about and I hope to be able to post some of my impressions of this process later on when I have more time to reflect.