I got this TShirt at FOSDEM, I was told that it means something .

First here is all of the text from the tshirt, which should make the page more discoverable:

Xen 
  Project
  @FOSDEM 2017

Forging the 
DNA of the Cloud

AGTCTACTCAGCCGTACTTCATCGACTTAGCGTTGTCTCAGC
GCTTGTCACGTCCTGCTCGTCAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTACCTC
ACTAGCTGTGCTAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTCAATCTGTGATTAC

These three strings are a bit unweildly to work with, lets break them down into groups of three.

AGT CTA CTC AGC CGT ACT TCA TCG ACT TAG CGT TGT CTC AGC
GCT TGT CAC GTC CTG CTC GTC AGC TAG CGT CTA AGC TAC CTC
ACT AGC TGT GCT AGC TAG CGT CTA AGC TCA ATC TGT GAT TAC

Now to wikipedia to get a DNA Codon Table to refer to:

Amino acid  Codons                          Compressed                      
Ala/A       GCT GCC GCA GCG                 GCN                     
Arg/R       CGT CGC CGA CGG AGA AGG         CGN MGR     
Asn/N       AAT AAC                         AAY     
Asp/D       GAT GAC                         GAY     
Cys/C       TGT TGC                         TGY     
Gln/Q       CAA CAG                         CAR     
Glu/E       GAA GAG                         GAR     
Gly/G       GGT GGC GGA GGG                 GGN     
His/H       CAT CAC                         CAY     
Ile/I       ATT ATC ATA                     ATH                         
START       ATG                                 

Amino acid  Codons                          Compressed                      
Leu/L       TTA TTG CTT CTC CTA CTG         YTR CTN
Lys/K       AAA AAG                         AAR
Met/M       ATG
Phe/F       TTT TTC                         TTY
Pro/P       CCT CCC CCA CCG                 CCN
Ser/S       TCT TCC TCA TCG AGT AGC         TCN AGY
Thr/T       ACT ACC ACA ACG                 ACN
Trp/W       TGG
Tyr/Y       TAT TAC                         TAY
Val/V       GTT GTC GTA GTG                 GTN
STOP        TAA TGA TAG                     TAR TRA

I poked at this for ages, I wondered if I had need to the take the codons in as they are written. A column at a time. But even looking at that, there was nothing obvious about the codon sequence.

After a while I started searching for subsequences from the string. This didn't help at all, but one page on google had a related search for ['dna message translator'][3]. Annoyingly I fed in this string:

AGTCTACTCAGCCGTACTTCATCGACTTAGCGTTGTCTCAGCGCTTGTCACGTCCTGCTCGTCAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTACCTCACTAGCTGTGCTAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTCAATCTGTGATTAC

And got the result:

XEN HACKATHON FORGING THE DNA OF THE CLOUD

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

Long journey back from FOSDEM, a train to Paris, train to the Airport and a hop through Amsterdam before making it home.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

We're baaaack to talk about live tweeting. TRANSMET: Human Reaction and Criminal Enterprise #3 https://t.co/yP1N8bE5Zf @warrenellis @DarickR pic.twitter.com/qDTBELFwtO

— Comicosity (@comicosity) February 5, 2017

FOSDEM is done! I want to start writing about the things I saw, but my phone still won't speak to my laptop. Tomorrow should be more differenter, once the travel is done I will have access to sane computing.

It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

I did my talks today, there is video coming, but I am told the audio is out of sync. My hotel doesn't seem to be up to doing streaming video so I haven't even tried.

Here are the slides:

Which should be clickable, but I can't figure out how to trick my site to do it

Which should be clickable, but I can't figure out how to trick my site to do it

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

Tomorrow, I am presenting at FOSDEM . Somehow I have gotten roped into doing two talks at almost the same time.

At 1555, I will present QoS Challenges for Real Time Traffic in the Real Time Communications devroom. I am pretty certain I am going to explain what the hell QoS in the internet is, some of the benefit you might see and how to do any of this with NEAT. The recent measurements we have been doing suggest that QoS shouldn't be a deal breaker for any connection, great news, but it doesn't make much of a discussion.

At 1630, I will present Transport Evolution on top of the BSD's in the BSD devroom. The two talks are in the same building, but 15 minutes is a bit tighter than I would have liked. This talk will be about the problems faced in making the internet better and how NEAT will help.

I know the BSD devroom will be recorded, but not streamed. I haven't heard anything about the RTC rooms video setup. If you are around for FOSDEM you should drop by and ask me difficult questions. If not I will take them over email.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon