I woke up this morning and decided that with the weather still not too cold it would be a great day to bike in to work. So I got up and went in the next room to get dressed in my biking clothes... and heard something hitting the window. Opened it up a bit and yes, indeed, the rain was coming down hard! Oh, well. I am not that into biking that I will ride in cold autumn rain... back on the bus for me.

dsifry: Best wishes with it all!

csm: Sorry, guy, I just had to reply.

3 years in the life of LPI - It just dawned on my today that I missed an anniversary... it was three years ago on October 1, 1998, when I wrote my little article about why I thought there should be a Linux certification program. It was there that I said:

I don't necessarily have the answers - but I would like to participate in the discussion. If someone can suggest the appropriate forum in which this discussion should take place (or is currently taking place!), please let me know.

csm, Tom Peters, Scott Murray and about 50 others answered back that they wanted to join in. Jon 'maddog' Hall soon put me in touch with Evan Leibovitch... dsifry offered a mailing list hosted by this very, very tiny startup called LinuxCare (note the capital "C" that was in the original company name, but soon thereafter was dropped to lowercase)... and the rest, as they say, is history...

Wow... what a long, strange, amazing trip it has been! I have met so many great people as we worked together to build what would become LPI... it truly has changed my life.

And I am incredibly pleased and proud to see LPI sailing along fine without me under the leadership of csm and with great people like jewelsthorn involved. They are doing great stuff and it is fantastic to see.

We will NOT be March Networks - For quite some time, it was widely and openly discussed that Mitel Networks would be merged into March Networks and we would all be one large company. We have already done a good bit of branding with "March Networks" in the SME Server V5 in preparation for the merger. The merger is now off, but we will continue to work closely together, since both companies are owned by Terry Matthews and share the same CEO (Don Smith). Other than needing to rebrand things, this does not really affect us all that much. The good news is that I will not need new business cards. :-)

Linux Documentation Project - Someone on the LDP discussion list pointed out this interview with Matt Welsh, one of the founders of the LDP. Rather interesting read to see where it came from. Today it moves forward under the able leadership of dmerrill, gleblanc, Greg Ferguson, Guyhelm, David Lawyer and a host of others...

RPM Dependency Hell - I just wanted to install one little RPM! That was it. Problem is, my desktop is still a modified Red Hat 6.2 and this RPM required glibc 2.2... so I tried to install that... but it needed other things and broke other dependencies... so I added more and more to the directory... which each solved some dependencies and then broke others...

In the end I just gave up. It will have to wait until I get around to doing a full upgrade of my desktop. Yes, I could have added "--nodeps" and installed this RPM, but then it probably would not have worked right... so there we are. (And yes, I know my Debian friends will rave about 'apt-get' and those using Ximian will talk about Red Carpet... but I don't use either of those.)

Parliament Hill webcam - While sitting in my cube, if I turn to my right, this is more or less what I see. There are a bunch of buildings in the way, of course, so it's not quite as nice of a view.

Thanksgiving - Monday is "Thanksgiving" here in Canada. Businesses will be closed so we all have a 3-day weekend. Why now versus when the US does it in late November? You can read about the history here.

Have a great weekend. I probably will NOT be online.