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CommunityOne: Keynote

After a busy weekend at the OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit in Santa Cruz, Lynn, Jeff, and I drove up California’s gorgeous Highway 1 to San Francisco to attend CommunityOne.

The keynote session was kicked off by Ian Murdock, who talked about open source, with help from Jonathan and illustrations from Hugh McLeod.

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This was all by way of introducing  opensolaris 2008.05.

Rich Green, Jim Hughes, and Jeff Bonwick went all Wile E. Coyote on some disk drives to prove the resilience of the ZFS file system (note the name on the anvil).

I spent most of the afternoon filming sessions (footage which will be publicly available as soon as I have time to edit it) and then… it was time to party!

Owlet Update

We now know that there are four owlets this year. I’m told this is well beyond the two-baby norm for Great Horned Owls, but the Broomfield owl pair are experienced parents who also have a good food source nearby: a colony of prairie dogs out at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitain Airport.

The two above are checking out an empty engineering office in BRM05. Sorry, kids – it’s already been promised to somebody as part of the Broomfield re-stack.

We Got Some Wild, Wild Life

Owls have been nesting on the Broomfield campus for some time, and every year (so I’m told) they have babies.

I guess it was past bedtime for baby owls.

The BRM courtyard is a protected area that attracts wildlife; I’ve seen rabbits in here as well.

Learn Italian in Song: Chitarra, Suona Piu’ Piano

Guitar, Play More Softly

Nicola Di Bari

Chitarra suona più piano

qualcuno può sentire

soltanto lei deve capire

lei sola deve sapere

che sto parlando d’amore

cantano i grilli nel grano

e un passero sul ramo

nessuno dorme questa sera

nemmeno lei a quest’ora

stringe il cuscino e sospira

la luna e’ ferma nel cielo

la lucciola sul melo

chitarra mia suona più piano

anche se incerta la mano

suona chitarra che l’ora

l’ora di darle tutto il bene che ho nel cuore

di dirle addio per sempre o perdonare

e amarla come un altro non sa fare

l’ora di respirare un poco d’aria pura

un prato e’ verde quando e’ primavera

il sole e’ caldo e poi scende la sera

per noi la notte odora di fieno

io dormo sul tuo seno

dio come batte il suo cuore

la gente sogna a quest’ora

dormi chitarra che l’ora

l’ora di darle tutto il bene che ho nel cuore

di dirle addio per sempre o perdonare

e amarla come un altro non sa fare

l’ora di respirare un poco d’aria pura

un prato e’ verde quando e’ primavera

il sole e’ caldo e poi scende la sera

l’ora di darle tutto il bene che ho nel cuore

di dirle addio per sempre o perdonare

e amarla come un altro non sa fare

l’ora di respirare un poco d’aria pura

un prato e verde quando e primavera

il sole e caldo e poi scende la sera

Guitar, play more softly

Someone could hear

Only she must understand

she alone must know

that I am speaking of love

the grasshoppers in the grain sing

a sparrow on a branch

no one sleeps this evening

not even she at this hour

holds tight the pillow and sighs

the moon is still in the sky

the firefly on the apple tree

My guitar, play more softly

even if the hand is uncertain

play, guitar, that the hour,

the hour to give her all the good I have in my heart

to tell her goodbye forever or forgive

and love her as no one else knows how

the hour to breathe a bit of pure air

a field is green when it’s spring

the sun is hot and then evening falls

for use the night smells of hay

I sleep on your breast

god how her heart beats

people dream at this hour

sleep, guitar, that the hour,

the hour to give her all the good I have in my heart

to say goodbye forever or forgive

and love her as no one else knows how…

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