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On our way to Austria last week, on March 6th, we left my daughter's laptop on a train: ICE 1201 (Hamburg-Harburg to Bludenz). The laptop is a Lenovo X230 notebook. The most obvious distinguishing feature is a Mathilda Hands sticker in the middle of the lid: I seem to remember that it also has some hexagonal stickers, one probably being one of these: The keyboard layout is British (with a £…
I just noticed that I wrote this a decade ago, and then never got round to posting it, so thought I might kick it off now to mark my tentative return to blogging. At the recent 2015 Cambridge-UK Mini-DebConf (generously hosted by ARM), I gave an impromptu Lightning Talk about Sleep Apnoea ( video here ). Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA - the form I'm on about) is a sleep disorder where one…
crowdsupply.com has a campaign to fund production of EOMA68 computer cards (and associated peripherals) which recently passed the $60,000 mark. If you were at DebConf13 in Switzerland, you may have seen me with some early prototypes that I had been lent to show people. The concept: build computers on a PCMCIA physical form-factor, thus confining most of the hardware and software complexity in a…
I am reminded by Gunnar's wonderful news that I have been very remiss in publishing my own. Mathilda Sophie Hands, our second daughter, was delivered on the 9th of January. Her arrival was a little more interesting than we'd have preferred (with Gunde being suddenly diagnosed with HELLP Syndrome ), but all has turned out well, with Gunde bouncing back to health surprisingly quickly, and Mathilda…
Ben Goldacre ( Bad Science ), is running a campaign for all medical trials to be published. It seems that best current evidence indicates that about half of the trials for treatments currently in use remain unpublished. That's pretty astounding when you think about it. Given that many of the trials that are published only compare new treatments against placebo, rather than against the best…
... a week ago, in the shape of Alexandra Daphne Scholz, my enchanting daughter. She seems to have inherited my hairstyle. Gundemarie Scholz (my wife) and she are both doing remarkably well, to the extent that they both keep surprising medical staff with their rapid progress. For those of you that care about such things: She was 2.9kg (6lb 6oz) at birth, and 49cm (1'7") tall ... or should that be…
Having designed the 3D model for a Pinard Horn (Foetoscope) last night, I printed it out and went to bed. This morning I applied it to Gunde's bump, and listened to my unborn daughter's heartbeat. I'm almost jealous of her for the exciting times she's being born into.
... since we got married -- a great month and one month until Gunde's expected to give birth to our first daughter. So exciting times ahead.
Debian will be exhibiting at next month's Cloud Expo Europe on the 2nd & 3rd of Feb. (well I will be — if you fancy keeping me company please add yourself to this page ) If you fancy visiting the show, you can register for free before midnight on the 1st of February (after that it costs £15.00 GBP) oh, and later the same week,
I had a constructive meeting with my Member of Parliament yesterday, in which he agreed to push this critique of the Digital Economy Act (the dire nonsense that Lord Mandelson forced through in the dying seconds of the previous UK parliamentary session, apparently at the behest of the copyright exploitation industry, who will presumably now owe him a few lucrative consultancies) If you're wanting…