Oz, Cambridge, Vienna, Madrid

So I watched this Australian movie (Somersault) the other day and the cute accent reminded me again how much I miss the country. It has almost been 2.5 years since I left and I'd really like to visit again. Maybe I should try to make it to LCA next year. In a related note, I'm looking for Rob Weir who has mysteriously disappeared from the Internet. Does anyone know what's up with him?

As much as I like Cambridge, staying at the same place for 2.5 years obviously doesn't work. ;) Next week I'll therefore go to Vienna for some "holidays" – the first thing I did was to sign myself up for a talk... if anyone wants to hear me babbling about quality in free software on Monday, check out the Debienna site. Right after my return from Vienna I'll go to Spain where I'll spend three months working in the Libre Software Engineering research group around Jesus Barahona (a Debian developer) and Gregorio Robles. I'll actually work on my PhD for a change during that time and do cool quantitative work to support the qualitative studies I've done so far.

Obviously, instead of packing, I spent the last few days and weeks hacking on Debian stuff, in particular making sure it works on the MIPS and ARM devices I support and which I cannot take with me to Madrid. So we finally have 2.6 kernels for MIPS in the archive now and debian-installer will move to it tomorrow. I've also compiled the whole archive on MIPS with GCC 4.1 but a more detailed report on that is forthcoming.

P.S. In terms of Spanish movies, I can highly recommend The Lovers of the Arctic Circle and Talk to Her.