{"id":7118,"date":"2004-09-02T12:05:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T02:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/melbourne-3\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T00:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:10:57","slug":"melbourne-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/melbourne-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in Melbourne this week for the AUUG<\/a> conference. So far it’s been good fun, although there’s a lot of BSD love going around, which is a bit weird. I’ve been accused of being a “Linux guy” a few times.<\/p>\n

Nice city, Melbourne. Although the weather’s been ordinary. I stumbled across the Olympics on a big screen in Federation Square, so I watched the Basketball for a while. Had excellent curry chicken in a restaurant nearby.<\/p>\n

Last night I had the pleasure of having a few drinks with about six L<\/strong>iberal staffers, through a friend of mine. It was an eye opening experience.<\/p>\n

They’re all nice people, chatty and friendly. I think there was an assumption that I shared their political views, which is something we all do. I wish I still had my dread(s), I think that would have made things more interesting, based on later comments.<\/p>\n

Basically they seem just like me, except when they dive into a political rant it’s about how Mark Latham’s going to destroy the economy. Although my initial reaction is “what a load of shit”, it’s not too far removed from me ranting about how John Howard’s going to destroy the environment.<\/p>\n

Some random pics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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