For Waitangi Day Michelle, Brian and I did the Goldie Bush tramp north of the Waitaks. Dave and I had done this once before. No broken arms this time.
We walked the track clockwise with many stream crossings and not much chance of keeping our boots dry. There wasn’t much water to the waterfall at the end. Not like I remembered. It was pretty crowded there too with several families having lunch, so we didn’t stay long. There must have been over 15 cars in the carpark when we came out.
A nice walk, finished off with icecream at Swanson. Michelle has more details on the walk over on her blog.
Flight back home was awful. I got to the airport on time, so of course my flight had been delayed. That wasn’t too bad as it gave me time to have a play with Django.
Sat in a middle seat, with the guy on the right of me putting his elbow on my entertainment controls and changing the audio channel while I was trying to watch the movie. Went to fill in the arrivals card and couldn’t find my passport. Spent half an hour searching for it before finally finding it.
Then got pulled out of the customs queue and taken for an interrogation, “do I travel on any other passport? who paid for my flights? did you stay in a hotel? have you traveled anywhere else in the last 6 months? what do you mean you can’t remember your own home phone number? does your job pay well? did you go to university and get degrees?”. He didn’t bother to search my bag, but in the end I didn’t get out until 2am. (The original scheduled arrival had been midnight.)
Glad to finally be home.
Anthony Baxter, from Google which he referred to as “*cough* company” gave the keynote this morning. He talked on the upcoming release of Python 3.0 which will be a major new revision breaking all backwards compatibility, but which will tidy up the language immensely. He also assured us the 2.x branch will be continue to be supported for at least two more revisions (2.6 and 2.7). He caused much amusement by first saying Impress was not good enough for his presentation and then spending two minutes trying to get whatever proprietary slideshow app it was (something on MacOSX) running. He did have plenty of eye candy in the show.
It was good to catch up with Gord who I went to University with long long ago. He recognised me from this blog which is pretty cool.
I attended the CRFS, C/C++ concurrency, X development and Puppet sessions today. I am definitely going to have a closer look at CRFS and Btrfs when I get back to Auckland. Intel has just released a complete programmers’ reference manual for the 965 and G35 graphics chips.
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