- @garethgreenaway just rub it in! #
- @grigs ok this was a million twitter-years ago, but OMGLMAO http://xkcd.com/386/ #
- just finished another satisfying drupal installation. #
- thinking about getting an eepc after playing with a pink one at local coffee shop. #
- @aurynn it was cute 🙂 but the battery life didn’t seem good. #
- @peat my husband and i got together on st patty’s day too 🙂 #
- @peat we have a party every year at the end of april – if you can make it, i’d love to meet your wife and little elliot. #
- full text of barack obama’s speech in the nytimes http://tinyurl.com/2g5ac2 #
- dreaming of the day when we have an eloquent president. #
- @sarahgilbert woo! pics!!! where are you getting your chickens from? #
- "to gin up" – to stir up, enliven. #
- @karolcooks xo right back to you! can’t wait for karaoke. #
- @sarahgilbert i love that list! great group of people. #
- wow. just finished reading obama’s speech. i hope he wins. #
- @radiogretchen oh yeah! but i’m gonna be out of town for the next few weeks. so it’ll be a while 🙂 #
- @metafluence accidentally on purpose? #
- @metafluence i hate that. #
- @linuxpoet dude, did you read the speech? #
- @linuxpoet even your cold heart would be moved. #
- @karolcooks where? scoots and I are going to see vincente fox… #
- @rwilliamz LOL #
- @TiEsQue isn’t there a drive-in in oregon city too? #
- @radiogretchen totally sympathize. i can’t do makeovers. my skin freaks out and declares war on the invading cosmetics. #
- @radiogretchen lots of face-washing? i have some clinique makeup remover that does the trick for eyes, soap/water + moisturizer #
twittering on 2008-03-17
- hacking up a lung #
- dear greylisting software: you are not srsly making me recompile sendmail, are you? #
- @schwern are you liveblogging the Enterprise finale? #
- @petdance: this is why i am so mean. #
- @aurynn it appeals to my evil inner-nature. #
- wooo! two oscon talks accepted, one with @petdance & @schwern (and others), the other with @gorthx! #
- @garethgreenaway i know, i know. #
- Todays stats since 11am PST: delayed by greylist: 114; eventually delivered: 3. (blocked by DNSBL: 5508) #
- yay – congrats @geekygirldawn #
- @geekygirldawn can i do a lightning talk on the power of cupcakes? #
- @Theory check online! #
twittering on 2008-03-14
- @br3nda sadistic admin? #
- heading over to gotham tavern to meet up with josh berkus and a bunch of PDXPUG folks #
- feeling a little sick. making list of antioxidants to eat/drink this morning. #
- a lazy cat keeping me company #
- looking at #ntc and wishing every conference had a day of service incorporated. *that*s true community building. #
- @kenefsky very cute! #
- eating more blueberries #
- @johnmark that would be hysterical. #
- @andeezy don’t tempt me! #
PostgreSQL Conference East – buckets of awesome!
We’re gearing up for PostgreSQL Conference East!
Slides are coming in, food’s been ordered, and we’re working out the final details of the space and recording. One of our committee members has a few digital cameras, so we’re hoping to record video in all three rooms.
Reading through the slides, I’m very excited to see Portland-local Jeff Davis’ talks on his work with the Ruby PostgreSQL driver, and a more general talk on Logic and Databases. Jeff has been a fixture at PDXPUG, and I’m happy he’s able to come out for the conference.
David Fetter is giving a crowd favorite, A Flock of PLs. And Michael Bryzek looks to be giving an simple and elegant talk explaining how to solve a common queuing problem for web application developers.
If you’re from the DC area, please suggest fun things to do while we’re in town (May 29-30). Especially good places to eat near the University of Maryland at College Park.
twittering on 2008-03-13
- @kenefsky: there’s precedent — http://tinyurl.com/3aogao #
- watching a moose play with a ball. at perlmongers. #
- @linuxpoet thank you!! i noticed that postgresql.us (without the www) resolves the wrong virtual host. #
- sigh, meant that to be a direct msg #
- @notbenh is plugging #moose on irc.perl.org #
- United States PostgreSQL Association launched! http://snurl.com/21p1s #
- @grigs thanks! i’m so excited. i want to listen to that pointer sisters album. on vinyl. #
- @grigs: no, just very excited. like the song! (re: announcement and congrats) #
- nice work, @theory. #
United States PostgreSQL Association launched!
I’m excited to announce today that some members of the PostgreSQL community and I are launching the United States PostgreSQL Association.
Here’s the text from the press release:
The United States PostgreSQL Association is launched! Our draft mission can be found at http://www.postgresql.us. We will support PostgreSQL in the US through user group development, conferences,
education initiatives and fun.We will be a sister organization to PostgreSQL EU, the Japanese PostgreSQL User Group, and other international PostgreSQL groups.
The founding members are Joshua Drake, Selena Deckelmann (me) and Michael Brewer.
Nomination and election of four additional board members will occur at the upcoming PostgreSQL Conference West, October 2008. General membership is open to anyone who wants to support the use of PostgreSQL in the US. The organization is being registered as a non-profit headquartered in Portland, OR, and we are applying for 501(c)3 status.
We are still working out details, but please watch http://www.postgresql.us for updates!
Questions, Comments? We’d love to hear from you. Please send us a message at board
postgresql.us.
Look forward to more information over the next few days and weeks about our plans. In the meantime, you can have a look at our mission statement and goals.
twittering on 2008-03-12
- @saragilbert get in touch with TACS http://www.tacs.org/ they give good advice 🙂 #
- this is for you, @linuxpoet: http://tinyurl.com/2cq6va #
- @theory i can bring one by if you need one. you can get them from office depot (depends on connectors tho) #
twittering on 2008-03-11
- i can’t wait to see @notbenh ride the moose. #
- @radiogretchen YES. always works. esp with grumpy-pants. #
- hah! tech group convergence: perlmongers will be at the lucky lab at the same time as werewolf #
- maybe i can finally get that book from @stevelle #
- behold: MacOSX support for ptop http://tinyurl.com/2wbgo2 #
- and per @petdance, next feature for ptop will be full support for remotely connecting to DBs. possible w/ current app, but its not pretty :/ #
- @linuxpoet mark & i were talking about writing some stored procs #
- congrats, @peat!! #
- @jabancroft its good to hear that you’re enjoying sxsw. the blog posts about mean crowd behavior make me sad. #
- i don’t want a nxnwi (better name TBD) to either bring to portland or be associated with mobs of assholes. #
- getting coffee, swapping out ppc for intel mac pro this morning. #
- @aurynn and 4GB ram too. i am a lucky sysadmin. #
- @jabancroft you should be sorry! 😉 i’ve been enjoying @geekygirldawns posts about BarCampAustin. #
- @grigs check yr email 🙂 #
- wishing i had something like the sxsw scheduler for my conference. #
- @aurynn it’s worth it in the end! hang in there. #
- @aurynn do they have co-working spaces in Calgary? i’m guessing not — i’m from kalispell, MT 🙂 #
- @aurynn total bummer. co-working in portland is ~$250/mo at cubespace. lots of sharable loft space too. #
- @aurynn my husband said that if i ever worked from home, that i *must* have an office outside the house 3 (or more) days/week. #
- @portvangelistas – did you hear that? i just recruited a canadian! #
- @bryanstearns – so i hear that you have some cool conference scheduling software? 🙂 #
- @xolotl yes. others are what are commonly referred to as "groupies". #
- @mobilehippie *sigh* yeah, yeah. #
- @robotadam thx for the pointer to pycon’s scheduler! looks nice. #
- hi @zbskii! what was the database issue? #
- use postgresql? in the south florida area? SPUG is recruiting! check out the poll for a meeting location: http://snurl.com/21j6f #
twittering on 2008-03-10
- @verso use ‘TechCrunch’ as your invite code 🙂 #
- funny, the response to sarah lacy (cruel/emotional heckling) happens on IRC during conferences all the time. not just to women. #
- just read @grigs response on crunchgear. thanks for writing that, jason. #
- @grigs your comment on the article. i think the tone was spot on. ppl need to be called out on the sexism. sure, the interview wasn’t good – #
- @grigs good for SXSW, but the blogging about it has largely been ridiculous. i thought this was good: http://snurl.com/21fcq #
- wondering if @linuxpoet has been spared the plague. hoping his little ones don’t have scarlet fever! #
- feeling victorious. #
- @mjollnir THANK YOU. #
- @andeezy yup. but the silver lining is that it WAS out in the public, so there was a public response that the heckling was bad. #
- @andeezy yeah, it has already started. a couple people pointed out that SXSW should have done a better job curating. #
- @andeezy lol. right. its pretty childish. i guess ppl think its fine to throw stones when they’re hiding behind a mob or on the interweb. #
- drupalverse: is it possible i just display a menu as a page? without using copy and paste? thx. #
- @xolotl thanks! checking it out…. #
- @xolotl fixing the postgres table definition for panels…. 🙂 #
twittering on 2008-03-09
- just finished taxes. woo. #