[plug] Test audience wanted - OSDC presentation

[Daniel J. Axtens]

yes, someone showed me that a few years ago....

still funny :)

On 22/09/06, Bernd Felsche <bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> writes:
> >On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> >> Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> writes:
> >>> On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Bernd Felsche wrote:
>
> >>>> My proposal for a talk at December's OSDC in Melbourne has been
> >>>> accepted so after I get the paper together in September, I'll need
> >>>> to work up a presentation; and do a live rehearsal.
>
> >>>> "Open Source Glue: Using Open Source to Glue Proprietary Systems to
> >>>> Business Needs"
>
> >>>>    http://osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/proposals/38
>
> >>>> You gentle people approximate "alive" so I suggest that we arrange
> >>>> for an evening in October or November when can you to watch me
> >>>> stumble through my presentation.
>
> >>> Does that mean that we will have a PLUG seminar?
>
> >> The last at the present OSWA, AFAICT.
>
> >Has a date been set?
>
> Seminar date is nominally October 10th.
>
> >Is the date before the closure of OSWA? :)
>
> I hope so!
>
> >> The paper was due today and after pulling an "all-nighter", it's
> >> done. The unofficial version is at
> >>      http://members.iinet.net.au/~innov8ve/Papers/glueOSDC.pdf
>
> >> The presentation will not be as "dry" as the paper and has a bit
> >> more time to show more code snippets as well as refer to another
> >> example.
> >> --
> >> /"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia
> >> \ /  ASCII ribbon campaign | "Laws do not persuade just because
> >> X   against HTML mail     |  they threaten."
> >> / \  and postings          | Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.
>
> >Aside question: is your Seneca, the Seneca who wrote Medea, on which a
> >fundamental principle of law is based? From memory, two famous Seneca's
> >existed, and only one of them wrote Medea.
>
> Oh dear... Lucius Annaeus Seneca, aka Seneca the Younger, did indeed
> write a tragedy entitled the Madea.
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a1308
>
> Don't for one second believe that I had a "classical education".
> Nevertheless, here's some "light reading" from him via WAIX
>        http://ftp.it.net.au/gutenberg/etext03/bnfts10.txt
>
> After a lot of reading, you may appreciate the conjunction of the
> following two quotes from the same Seneca:
>
>        "A great mind becomes a great fortune."
> and     "A great fortune is a great slavery."
>
> OOPS!
> --
> /"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia
> \ /  ASCII ribbon campaign | "Laws do not persuade just because
>  X   against HTML mail     |  they threaten."
> / \  and postings          | Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.
>
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