The ASF has been nominated for the JCP Member of the Year. Thanks to the JCP community for valuing our contributions in the last year.

I dropped my laptop. Twice. It was after a weeklong trip to Brasil and Argentina. 6 airplanes, a zillion bus and cab trips, 2 train trips, 1 talk at FISL, interview 5 companies for offshoring/staff augmentation. I was tired.

After the first drop, 10% of the screen was broken - the left side. Got another and was going to do a transfer when I got home. On the way home, it fell out of my bag again. Now over 50% of the screen didn't work.

Solution? Carbon Copy Cloner. Attached the two laptops together w/ a FireWire 800 cable, held option on startup to let me boot off the drive in my broken laptop, used CCC to clone the old drive to the new laptop.

4 hours later, had a complete clone, and got back to work. Perfect. Recommended.

Was in Sao Paulo yesterday talking to software companies about finding an outsourcing / "staff augmentation" relationship, and one CTO, when discussing the opportunities for her company's software internationally, said "Fortunately, Angola just got through a civil war..."

She didn't quite mean it that way...

I had a few free minutes and was using the session builder to put together a schedule for JavaOne. Seems to work much better this year for some reasons. Anyway, it's clear that Sun and Azul settled their lawsuit - there are lots of Azul presenters on cool subjects, and good to see proliferation of non-Java language talks.

I did the export of the schedule to .ics and imported to iCal. Worked like a charm. Only problem is that it only was my sessions, and not the general ones, like the general sessions, pavilion hours, lunch, coffee breaks, and after hours activities. Silly.

Currently down in Brasil for FISL (it's over) and some business-related work in Sao Paulo. FISL was a great time - the talk went well, and it was nice to see people I know down here, as well as some of my friends from Sun. I won't name names. They all were very kind, open and welcoming, including me in their social activities, and I got to know many of them better. Really a smart and talented bunch. Thanks. I really do appreciate it.

I also got to spend time with Ean Schuessler and his brother Eric, who also was here. When Bruno told me "Hey, Ean has a brother! He's bigger and crazier than Ean is!" I knew that things were going to be more interesting than usual. It was great meeting Eric. These two guys are insanely talented, and inspired at a level that is indescribable.

I have two photo's to share. The first comes from a restaurant we went to sat night, one that specialized in filet mignon, where "specialized" refers to the various ways they cook it. Start with "Chicken-Fried" :

Yes, there's a piece of steak in there - and not a bad one. (Forget the bed of pasta it's one...) That was followed by "filet mignon parmesian", then w/ garlic, then we a yellow-ish cheese, then a white-ish cheese, then madiera, and then something else I forgot. All good, but odd :)

Here's another pic from the gym at my current hotel - it's SP in the evening, clouds and rain :

http://robilad.livejournal.com/30463.html

Congrats, my friend!

Hey, can I get on the OpenJDK governing board? Would be good to have some loyal opposition on it :)