ten billion butterfly sneezes

I planned to post something yesterday, when I was actually safely ensconced back in tbbs WorldHQ. My last “yum update” session brought down the released version of Firefox 3. Thereafter, my Scribe Fire blog plugin would only post the article’s title, sans content.

I deinstalled/reinstalled Scribe Fire, and now write in SF in the HTML instead of WYSIWYG mode. At least that has worked once.

So for the fourth time, and hopefully this one is visible, I’m safely home from Boston and the Red Hat Summit. What an amazing conference. Information overload is an apt phrase to use to describe the goings-on. The sessions were presented by developers, engineers, and doers, rather than by marketing flacks. I especially enjoyed the cobbler and func presentations. I love infrastructure, and both of these are an infrastructure guy’s dream. I have dabbled with func, and read about cobbler; I’ll investigate the latter in more detail ASAP.

My original plan was to attend some FUDCon sessions on Friday, after Summit wrapped up. However, on Thursday night, or more precisely, early Friday morning, I took a header walking back to my hotel. Believe me, the sight of asphalt coming up to meet your face is not pretty. I managed to break the fall with knees, elbows, and hands; the face, for better or worse, is OK. I was stiff and sore on Friday, and have remained so since. I don’t know whether it was the fall, or toting around my backpack full of electronics, but my left side is especially tender. In spite of my right side having absorbed most of the punishment in the fall, it’s the left one that gives me grief.

I think it’s time for some liniment. Warming, and leaves me smelling like wintergreen.

-k-