Hmm... Thursday afternoon and I've only just started writing the summary... What happened to professionalism? What happened to rigid, albeit self-imposed deadlines?

On the last day of EuroOSCON there was a panel discussing why there were so few women in the open source community. It turns out that the predictable claim that “It’s the same throughout the industry, it’s not an Open Source only problem!” doesn’t really stand up. Danese Cooper pointed to a study that found that 12% of all developers were women, but only 2% of Open Source developers are.

At EuroOSCON, Cory Doctorow talked about plans for a European Broadcast Flag – a ‘rights management’ system which is to be built into future digiboxes. He talked about the implications of Digital Rights Management for the consumer (there are no good implications). What he didn’t discuss were its implications for media makers.

O’Reilly CTO Rael Dornfest believes that we’ve trained ourselves to accept disappointment from web applications. He maintains that Web 2.0 is about apps that meet our real expectations.

Well, I’m back from EuroOSCON, which was a pile of fun. I spent most of my time on the ‘hallway track’, occasionally dropping in on interesting talks and keynotes, but mostly just hanging around with interesting people. I took a pile of photos and still have a couple of rolls of film left to develop now I’m back home.

Listen to this. You’ll not regret it.

Just in case you didn’t know, BOFH stands for “Bastard Operator From Hell”, a character invented by Simon Travaglia and patron saint of cynical systems administrators everywhere. The original BOFH articles were a lightning rod, used by stressed admins as a way of dealing with idiot lusers. Even if you never acted like the BOFH, you could think “What’s your username? … clickety-click” and all would be well for a couple of moments.

A few of points, I wonder if we can make them join up.

My new combined laptop and camera bag arrived yesterday, a Crumpler December Quarter. It’s a little snug for my 17" Powerbook, but it’ll serve. The question now is, what cameras do I pack?

Welcome to the first of my self-hosted Perl 6 Summaries.

Look, I know that the US is a strange, God-ridden country, but surely God told me to do it is still the last refuge of the serial killer and not a sound basis for foreign policy.

Joss Whedon’s Firefly was a sf series that was never given time; episodes were jumbled by the network and the show got cancelled just when it was starting to build a serious fanbase. And that’s all she wrote.

Browsing through my logs, as you do, I’ve noticed that the essay I wrote over two years ago on The Fine Art of Complexity Management is still showing up in the top 10 hits. In fact, at the moment, it’s the second most popular non-feed, none front-page article on the site. What’s weird is that, most of the links to it that I can find on Google point to a no-longer accessible version of the site.

If you’ve hung out with extreme programmers, the Perl 6 crew, a large subsection of the Perl community, or, well, almost anyone who’s given it any thought, you’ll know that having a good test suite is essential.

Not content with inflicting my reading of Tamlyn on you all, I’ve recorded a couple more songs