Planet Advocacy and…advocacy

Planet Advocacy and…advocacy

As some of you will be aware, I run [Planet Advocacy](https://planetadvocacy.jonobacon.com/), and you can read the combined wisdom of Linux advocates including Reverend Ted, Benjamin Mako Hill, Dave Neary, Zak Greant and others. Tim Joyce mailed me to be added to the...
Microsoft Summit Day 1

Microsoft Summit Day 1

Well, here I am in Seattle. After hours of travelling and virtually no sleep over the last two days, I am finally checked in having attended my first day at the Microsoft Technical Summit. This is a three day conference in which an invited audience are put in the same...
Nottingham LUG and Jokosher

Nottingham LUG and Jokosher

Wow, busy day yestersay. Got into work pretty early and did a seminar on building dynamic websites with PHP and MySQL. Reasonable turnout for 9am and lots of interesting questions. I then spent much of the day preparing for my talk in Oxford next week and finishing up...
Schnoogans

Schnoogans

Well, all evening slots on the [UK Tour](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/uklugtour/) are now filled. We do however still have some daytime slots available. The week of April 17th is half-term for students, so if you run a University computer society it may of...
My stomach can be an enemy sometimes

My stomach can be an enemy sometimes

The last few days have been populated by the rather unpleasant output of a stomach bug. It was not nice, and I am not not going to share the ghastly details with you. Suffice to say, it was ghastly. Thanks very much to all of you who mailed in asking for a place on...