Wellington Suspension Bridge

Unable to remember the name of the Wellington Suspension Bridge I came across this awesome website that documents the 'Doric Columns' . The site is full of history about Aberdeen and the local area, including old photographs, paintings and etching of the local infrastructure. This Etching of the Brig o' Balgownie gives a real impression of the extent of the land reclaimed from the Sea in Aberdeen.

Reading: Nemesis Games, All Tomorrow's Parties

33C3 Lightning talk

I got the confirmation email today, I will be presenting a lightning talk about internet transport at congress. There are about one hundred billion lightning talks at each congress spread over three days, the bar for entry is much lower than a real track talk. I am happy to be included with the likes of the hacker yoga guy from camp. The lightning talk reveals the secret fourth planned item for my trip to hamburg.

With my FOSDEM talks and congress I have been preparing 'external' facing presentations a lot this month. I am now sure that there isn't any fixed length of talk that really works. 55 minutes is a lot of time to speak for, writing a coherent story that will come across in that amount of time is hard.

And yet, a 5 minute lightning talk slow is a horrible thing! There isn't much time to speak, which means there is almost no time at all to get your problems out and your solutions in order.

I am quite sure the lightning talks are live streamed, they are certainly recorded. I will post a link to the timeslot once I know when it is, the live stream just before it happens and the video once it is posted.

Reading: Nemesis Games, Idoru

It is getting closer

Okay, just 14 days to congress how is your preparation going?

I have three projects coming with me:

  • RGB Pixel Display
    • I have the panel built and some initial code running. I still want to connect the panel to the network and do some other cool effects, this has a good start.
  • Slow TV
    • hibby and I spent a couple of hours playing with VLC and python on Sunday. We have a script that can send out a multicast video stream which we can pick up in vlc. We need to get separate audio working and video playlists going before we can say this is ready.
  • Some sort of display showing:
    • I am going to set up a pi today, it will boot into rainbowstream running with image on terminal. I will connect that to the cheap pico projector I have and then I will call it 'done'.

Reading: Nemesis Games, Idoru

FOSDEM 2017

It seems I will speaking at FOSDEM next year in the bsd devroom. I will be presenting " Transport Evolution on top of the BSD's ", whatever that means :D. I also have another talk in a similar vein submitted to the Real Time Communications devroom, it looks like my first FOSDEM will be a busy one.

Reading: Nemesis Games, Idoru

You are in control

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

Reading: Nemesis Games, Idoru

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