Sunday March 11, 2007 LiveMink OGB Special: Glynn Foster
Last week I invited all of the candidates in the OpenSolaris Governing Board elections to record an interview for me. Responses have been rather slow (can you believe that they are shy?) but the first ones have started to happen. I'll be publishing a series of interviews just as soon as I can get them recorded. You may want to subscribe - the podcast feed link is down there in the left hand column near the bottom.
First to the microphone is Glynn Foster. Glynn spoke to me using VoIP from New Zealand. Thank-you for replying and being brave enough to go first, Glynn. Listen on!
[MP3]—[Ogg]—[iTunes]—(12' 33")
Posted by webmink
( Mar 11 2007, 08:40:00 PM PDT )
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Watch Before You Spring
A bright good morning to all my American friends and colleagues, and welcome to Daylight Saving Time. I am delighted for you that your government has decided to start summer before the equinox and wish you every happiness.
However, those of us over here in Europe would like to remind you that we'll not be starting with summer time until after the equinox. That means we're not the usual 8/9 hours away this week, so all those carefully planned meetings we have worked out now fall in all the wrong places. It's going to be messy, and it's going to be messy for two whole weeks, until March 25th, while we are 7 (to UTC) and 8 (to CET) hours apart.
So, on behalf of all of Europe, I'd like to ask you to look carefully at the calendar and make sure everyone invited to those meetings knows when everyone else is expecting to show up. I expect you'll blame us for all the times we aren't there when you're expecting, but remember, it was you that moved - this is your government saving energy and enhancing Halloween, after all.
[Fixed an impossibly stupid error in my first attempt at this posting! Usually the DST switch happens in Europe first so the 9 hr gap happens in spring and the 7 hr gap in autumn, but with the switch moving 3 weeks in the US it's reversed. Saving the first version for Autumn...]
Posted by webmink
( Mar 11 2007, 06:16:00 AM PDT )
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For that idle moment, click around and marvel. My favourite is the wooden pocket watch at the bottom of the list.
Posted by webmink
( Mar 11 2007, 05:22:53 AM PDT )
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