I've been thinking about resurrecting this...
So why not start here: I'm in the Netherlands, in a village called Vierhouten, at a former socialist youth camp, attending HAR2009 - that's the first time I've been to this sort of thing in six years. I'm here with Graham, who will be doing some blogging at his delusion of grandeur (sorry) known as GeekChique. In fact, once we have electricity sorted out at our tent (we need to get an outdoor extension lead first, which will require driving to the nearest town, which I'll do after the current talk ends), I believe he plans to run a publicly accessible server inside our tent, no less than a 1U rackmount unit.
That said I probably won't be blogging much from here, it just seems like a good excuse to overcome the inertia and bring this back to life. What I may well do is try to get into more of a habit of food blogging - I did a few cooking-related posts when I first started on LJ, and some people seemed to appreciate them, but I haven't done it in it in, er, probably about three years. While I don't have as much time to do cooking experiments as I would like, and most of my cooking isn't really blog-worthy, I do try the occasional interesting thing and sometimes even take photos, so I should perhaps start posting some of it. By way of example, I've recently managed to grow a decent crop of green chillies indoors, which isn't specifically cooking but fits the theme (may post a photo later).
I'm in a talk about "the Future of Science" which is (so far) a tour of a few different topics including science blogging, 'open source biology' (i.e. openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page), making research more open and public, e.g. using Wikis to coordinate research, and more radical (I wouldn't want to do it) ways of working such as open-notebook science.
General observations: The overwhelming majority of mobile computers being used are (in no particular order) Macs, IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads and netbooks (mostly Asus). And a lot of geeks have remarkably boring cars (Fiat Multipla FTW!), although there are a few cool camper vans and such, and I've seen a surprising number of Toyota Priuses, at the event and in NL so far - certainly more than you'd see in Germany or Luxembourg. Also, next time, while a nominally three-man tent is enough for two people to sleep in (just), I'll want a bigger tent and/or some more extra structures like, say, a gazebo to set up some camping chairs and tables in. And preferably some outdoor lighting to decorate the tent, or something...
That said I probably won't be blogging much from here, it just seems like a good excuse to overcome the inertia and bring this back to life. What I may well do is try to get into more of a habit of food blogging - I did a few cooking-related posts when I first started on LJ, and some people seemed to appreciate them, but I haven't done it in it in, er, probably about three years. While I don't have as much time to do cooking experiments as I would like, and most of my cooking isn't really blog-worthy, I do try the occasional interesting thing and sometimes even take photos, so I should perhaps start posting some of it. By way of example, I've recently managed to grow a decent crop of green chillies indoors, which isn't specifically cooking but fits the theme (may post a photo later).
I'm in a talk about "the Future of Science" which is (so far) a tour of a few different topics including science blogging, 'open source biology' (i.e. openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page), making research more open and public, e.g. using Wikis to coordinate research, and more radical (I wouldn't want to do it) ways of working such as open-notebook science.
General observations: The overwhelming majority of mobile computers being used are (in no particular order) Macs, IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads and netbooks (mostly Asus). And a lot of geeks have remarkably boring cars (Fiat Multipla FTW!), although there are a few cool camper vans and such, and I've seen a surprising number of Toyota Priuses, at the event and in NL so far - certainly more than you'd see in Germany or Luxembourg. Also, next time, while a nominally three-man tent is enough for two people to sleep in (just), I'll want a bigger tent and/or some more extra structures like, say, a gazebo to set up some camping chairs and tables in. And preferably some outdoor lighting to decorate the tent, or something...
