Param is resting up. I’ve been off work for the last three days, two days at the hospital, and today to help with Prahlad and to make sure that Param doesn’t need to go back to the hospital in a rush. Things seem to have stabilized.

Last night we had the inaugural meeting of LUG Vegas, a new Linux user group that a few of us have started here in Brisbane. Check out the website at www.lugvegas.org. I went along to give a 10 minute opening talk and to introduce the speaker, the Senior Director of Red Hat’s Global Support Services, Iain Gray.

Marty, my boss, told me not to go, but Param wanted me to, so I went. It went well. I didn’t get to record it, and I forgot to take along the free tshirts that I have in the office for community events such as this. Had a lot on my mind, you know.

I spoke about Elvis, LUG Vegas, and getting involved and making a contribution to open source. It went well, although my sermon preparation was disrupted by the events of the past few days, so it didn’t go as well as I would have liked… still, the peeps were happy, and that’s the main thing.