Blog posts from May 2009...
Saturday by Ian McEwan
My review at Goodreads
Rating: 5 of 5 stars
Ian McEwan never disappoints, and this novel is no exception. While I found the build up to the final third of the book carefully constructed, if sometimes seemingly a bit slow moving, all of this was to lend greater wait to the final moments of conflict in the novel. I took my time reading this and enjoyed every moment. I finished this on my plane to Barcelona, Spain for Canonical AllHands, and the book really caused me to think on conflict and generosity among various peoples on the planet. I would highly recommend this book.
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Link | Posted by deryck on May 24, 2009 | 0 comments
I've just finished my first night in Barcelona, Spain. This was
a fun night, a good night for catching up with people in person whom
I normally only see online. And, of course, Canonical is steadily growing,
so there are many people still to meet or get to know. This should be
a nice couple weeks.
That's right -- two weeks. This first week is for the Canonical AllHands
meeting; next week is for
UDS.
. It's a long time to be away from my family, but I really
feel it's time well spent.
I've been with Canonical for a little over a month now, and it's been a
busy few weeks. We're mid-cycle now on the 2.2.5 release, and looking at
our
2.2.5
progress page, you can get a good idea of what sort of work is going
into Launchpad Bugs this next release. Lots of words like "UI" and "inline"
on the page. I've been doing work on making subscribing to bugs happen on a
bug page, rather than having a user taken away to a "subscribe to bug XXXX"
page and redirected back again after confirmation.
This is the last week to land code this cycle, and with AllHands, I don't
know how much more I'll really get done. But I'm going to try to get in
some coding time this week. I would like to finish all of the subscribe-to-a-bug-inline
tickets this cycle, but I'm sure that's a bit unrealistic this
time. But tomorrow, tomorrow we'll see what happens.
Just not tonight... tonight, I'm dead. I need sleep. now.
EOD
Link | Posted by deryck on May 19, 2009 | 0 comments
