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Quickies

by | Thu 14 Feb 2008

Step back, put on the protective visor, and get ready for some quickies:

* I did an interview with Orv at SCaLE about Ubuntu, Canonical, LugRadio, SCaLE, speaking and various other things. Go and [grab it here](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/~orv/jonointerview.mp3).
* [Ubuntu Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek) is kicking arse and taking names, and do continue to [Digg it](https://digg.com/linux_unix/First_ever_Ubuntu_Developer_Week_announced). It is going to be an excellent week, and I am looking forward to seeing you all online at the sessions. 🙂
* Big thanks to Ilan for taking me into Los Angeles and showing me around – after three years, I finally made it there. Hollywood is an interesting and wacky place, and I certainly want to get back there again.
* The Ubuntu California LoCo team did an excellent job at SCaLE with the Ubuntu booth. It is great to see LoCo teams in action, and it sounds like it was a great success. 🙂
* Nathan from the Ubuntu Californian LoCo team did a video interview with me while I was in the bar at the end of SCaLE. Go and [see it here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r9LKiwXicQ). I was a few beers in at this point, so be sympathetic to my ramblings.
* Right now I am in San Francisco and I fly back later today. At 1pm I head to The Metreon in San Francisco to do a tour of the venue for [LugRadio Live USA 2008](https://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/start). Google are sponsoring the venue and loads of other stuff, and the always awesome Leslie and Cat from the Google Open Source center are helping to pull everything together. They are doing a stunning job there. 🙂
* Meryl gave me a a ‘*Meanie Baby*’, which is a beanie duck with it’s head removed. This duck thing continues to plague my presence at conferences, and she is the ring-leader. She must be stopped.
* Ken VanDine needs to change his name to Ken Van Damme. He was also seperated at birth from Jorge Castro.
* WARNING: I am writing up a big blog entry about metal. Those of you who are into false-metal will not be my friend.

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