FOSDEM 2014

I attended FOSDEM this year. As always, it was very busy, and the Brussels transport system was as confusing as ever. This time it was nice to accidentally bump into so many people I know from years past. Lunar's talk on reproducible builds of Debian packages was interesting - being able to independently verify that a particular binary package was built from a particular source package is quite attractive. Also Mailpile declared an alpha release....

Where did last year go?

Counting off years at an arbitrary date on a calendar seems a bit meaningless - to many people I suppose it makes sense, because everyone gets together at New Year's Eve, and there's a big party to remember things by. With me it's different; for the last few New Years, things have been quiet. The big events in my life are not the times when I take a few days to relax, as pleasant as they are....