Updates..

Bah. Twitter seems to have been broken as far as shipping to Livejournal goes, ever since LJ moved to non-SixApart servers.
There goes my "adventures in micro-blogging" :(

Short re-cap:
* I am currently in Sydney, for OSDC during the week, but I am staying on until Sunday to be a tourist too.
* Perl6 has entered Beta; first version was burnt to disc and given to Larry Wall today.
* Microsoft are being weird and falling over themselves to help open-source groups create stuff that works with their protocols and formats. WTF? But also, cool. (They've even dedicated a lab to helping Perl developers port stuff to Win32, including copies of all production versions of Windows and a helpdesk. For every dev on CPAN)
* OSDC is cool.
* There are lots of bats in Sydney. It's weird to see them flying overhead.
* Sydney is very hot and humid. Ick.
* OpenAustralia.org is great.
* asciio is Visio in ASCII. Genius!


I have seen the Headless Chickens live. It has only taken me, like, almost a decade and a half to achieve this.
It was actually a bit of a relief that I wasn't the only person at the gig. It means that Jason Elder and I are not the only ones in the universe who liked them! Yay!

Twitter syndication

• 13:34 Excellent talk from @pjf about autodie pragma in #Perl. Klingon analogies worked even for people who aren't trekkies. (Trekkers?) #
• 13:35 Am accidentally in a #PHP talk on their new support for lambda functions and closures. Whoops. Was expecting something else. :( #
• 15:09 The only laptops that ever seem to work with the projectors at #OSDC are the Macs. Is it still this hard for Linux/X11? #
• 16:33 Surprised at #Microsoft's apparent turn-around recently to help #opensource projects, esp w/CPAN as announced at #OSDC. Thanks! #
• 16:59 Perl6-beta distro has been created, burnt to disc, and presented to Larry Wall at #osdc #
• 19:26 Have swapped hotels. Wondering which pub the #osdc crowd will be at by now. #
• 21:33 Waiting for the Headless Chickens to come on stage. Wonder how they'll be after 15 years hiatus? #
• 00:21 Chickens were good. Now need to wend my way back across Sydney from Surry Hills to Potts Point. #

From http://twitter.com/dryfter