Photos (from left to right): oclug February 2005 meeting, Ottawa in the days to Winterlude 2005.
Spent nearly 7 hours on a plane (Air Canada flight AC889) from London Heathrow, but eventually got to Ottawa. Had fun with immigration in convincing them that I really was here for the Winterlude and was then going to visit Boston. That took an hour, because I’d left a printout of my return flight details on the plane and it had to be located before they’d let me through to the rubber glove lady with an xray machine, who wanted to know why I had brought my laptop with me on holiday. Luckily they didn’t ask me to explain why I also had a PIC programmer in my bag – I was pretty tired but not quite enough to sleep on the plane (engine noise and lighting kept me awake, but I can get some ear plugs and an eye mask).
I was met at the airport by ajh, who kindly offered to drive me to the public library for the talks. I got there in time to catch the end of a talk on Real Time Linux – a good talk but I was a little reserved about the accuracy of the figures being obtained for interrupt latencies by a timing operation split between kernel and userspace. Then we went to the pub for a few drinks. ajh then kindly took me to the Rideau Inn, where I had not got the code for the door with me, so I called and left a message on an answerphone before I rang the doorbell and was let in by someone. Got to bed in the end.
Today, I went to do some touristy stuff around Ottawa, found out that Chapters will have a copy of rml’s latest LKD incarnation within a few days – according to the information the guy I spoke to could bring up on the web site. Spoke to the guys in the store about LU&D to find out whether the distribution lag of several issues is typical. Noted that the cover CDs are being removed and kept separately – mentioned this to RH to see if we can get the cover modified accordingly. I saw the parliament again, had a lot of coffee in various places, and visited Steamballoon – who are in the same building as Transgaming. Did an interview with SB.
The Earl of Sussex was pointed out to me on #oclug last week. It’s got free wifi and comfy chairs.
Jon.