Something interesting happened today at my apartment. I was sitting at my computer around 3pm when I heard a loud bang and the power went out. I looked outside and saw a car had run into the power pole on the corner. I went outside and called 911. The power pole had been broken in […]
A month ago I went to the [Portland Rose Garden](http://www.parks.ci.portland.or.us/Gardens/IntRoseTestGarden.htm) and took some photos. Here are some roses for Rose. [](/photostack/rosegarden)
Today I rode in the Providence Bridge Pedal, a big community bike ride in Portland. I heard an estimate of 18,000 people. I can believe it; it was more crowded this year compared to last year. There were bnottleneck this year where people had to get off and walk. I heard somebody joke that the […]
For a special meeting of [Portland Perl Mongers](http://portland.pm.org) on Friday, Stas Beckman talked about mod_perl 2.0. He talked for three hours and only went through probably half of his slides. He went quickly through the difference between mod_perl 1 and mod_perl 2 but he demonstrated a lot of the new mod_perl 2 API. He went […]
After OSCON on Wednesday, I met up with Michael Schwern and friends. We went to FOSCON, a Ruby gathering a [Free Geek](http://www.freegeek.org/). We missed the Ruby on Rails talk which is probably the technical introduction I didn’t get at OSCON. I did get to see a Ruby Metaprogramming talk by [Glenn Vanderburg](http://www.vanderburg.org/Blog). I knew Ruby […]
I went to a day of sessions last Wednesday at OSCON. Here are the session I went to: ## Shtoom First, I went to talk by Anthony Baxter about [shtoom](http://divmod.org/projects/shtoom), a SIP stack written in Python. As he explained multiple times, VOIP and SIP are complicated. Which makes writing a complete stack by himself even […]
I went to two days of [OSCON](http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/) last week. My company finally decided to send me on Monday. The first day, August 2, I went to the Slony-I Replication Tutorial. [Slony](http://slony.info) is a replication system for [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org). We use it at work to replicate a master database to two slave databases. This is done so […]
Last Monday, I became an uncle. My brother and his wife had a baby girl, Rose Athena Martinsen-Burrell. Lara went into labor on Saturday evening. Rose was born by C-section 42 hours later. He sent out a picture:  Hopefully, they will post more pictures at [his blog](https://braeburn.amath.unc.edu/~nburrell/blog) or the [baby’s website](http://www.undersea.com/~lara/).