Friday Jun 24, 2005
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- Prototype Sun Ray laptops
- Father of three
- Teaching critical thinking in schools?
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Friday Jun 24, 2005
We had the first UK OpenSolaris User Group (OSUG) meeting on Monday.
The meeting was remarkable in that everyone presented OpenSolaris consistently and exactly the way I'd like it to be seen. There is clearly some distrust of Sun's motivation but pleasing all of the people all of the time is not worth attempting as we know. The community needs a simple way to communicate so setting up a UK OpenSolaris forum seems essential.
Good things
- Coherent and (I thought) convincing presentation of OpenSolaris
- Some good questions
- Some real Sun engineers turned up
Not so good things
- Too much time on licensing - but that does point to a gap to be filled, though ideally not in the OSUG meetings
- Attendance could have been better - but then, OpenSolaris has only just started out
- Meeting overran
I had to dash off to attend a needy family (check out my Family blog entries) but I gather the discussion continued in the pub afterwards which was probably at least as effective.
I definitely plan to be at the next one. The UK engineers I work with are very keen to share their knowledge and participate but we'd rather people asked than have us presume. Please let us know what you need.
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How To Balance Life And Technology For Kids?
JP found an interesting SlashDot thread on geeks and kids. As a father of two gorgeous boys (8 months and 3½ years) I read it with interest though you probably want to set the moderation threshold to 5.
The general advice is, as you might expect, obvious: spend lots of time with them and make sure they get outside and play.
I find that my technical interests have mostly to be confined to normal office hours which isn't so bad as I have a very technical job. Urgent out-of-hours stuff gets done when it must after Lara and children have gone to bed. This will most probably change as the children get older, but I see this being the case for the next 4 years or so.
Some things I've very much learnt to appreciate are:
- How valuable time is (I try to spend it wisely and probably fail at least 50% of the time)
- Where my priorities lie (the family)
- Lara (even more of a gem than I thought)
- The value of a good night's sleep
One current joy is carrying the older boy on my shoulders to his nursery which is a pleasant 10 minutes walk. It's hard to take the blank faced commuters seriously when there's a happy tousle-haired urchin jumping around pretending to throw snowballs at everything.
I wonder how Bryan is getting on