Name: Philip Hands
Member since: 2000-03-31 23:26:18
Last Login: 2012-01-07 22:36:45

Homepage: http://www.hands.com/

Notes:

I own & run the UK Debian FTP mirror.
I've been a Debian developer since 1996 and was a member of the Debian System Administrators (DSA) team for about a decade
I've run
my own software consultancy since 1993, selling support
and consultancy for *nix systems. These days my living
comes exclusively from supporting Free Software, mostly
Debian GNU/Linux, so if you're wondering if it's possible
to put bread on the table with Free Software, I'm living
proof that it is :-)
Not only that, but I've managed to
cleanse my systems of non-free software, and only stray from
that to do things like play the occasional region-coded DVD.

Projects

• Developer on Debian
• Contributor on OpenSSH Linux & Unix port
• Contributor on Samba
• Contributor on mgetty
• Contributor on rsync

Recent blog entries by hands

25 Jan 2012 »

The future arrived

... a week ago, in the shape of Alexandra Daphne Scholz, my enchanting daughter.

She seems to have inherited my hairstyle.

Gundemarie Scholz (my wife) and she are both doing remarkably well, to the extent that they both keep surprising medical staff with their rapid progress.

For those of you that care about such things: She was 2.9Kg (6lb 6oz) at birth, and 49cm (1'7") tall ... or should that be "long", given that she's not doing so much standing up as yet? What she is doing is sleeping, breast feeding, and excreting ... rather a lot.

Between times, it's mostly gurgling cheerfully, looking around at the world, and attempting to study her own hands -- I find her completely fascinating.

That being the case, don't expect anything very sensible out of me for the foreseeable future (so no change there, eh? )

and because I cannot resist the urge, here are a few more snaps of her:

As you can see, at only one day old, it seems that she'd already managed to get hold of the Amulet of Yendor, and was having a well earned nap

Syndicated 2012-01-25 23:26:58 from chezfil

7 Jan 2012 »

Listening to the future

Having designed the 3D model for a Pinard Horn (Foetoscope) last night, I printed it out and went to bed.

This morning I applied it to Gunde's bump, and listened to my unborn daughter's heartbeat. I'm almost jealous of her for the exciting times she's being born into.

Syndicated 2012-01-07 21:53:39 from chezfil

11 Dec 2011 »

One Month

... since we got married -- a great month

and one month until Gunde's expected to give birth to our first daughter.

So exciting times ahead.

Syndicated 2011-12-11 22:55:43 from chezfil

17 Jan 2011 »

Cloud Expo Europe

Debian will be exhibiting at next month's Cloud Expo Europe on the 2nd & 3rd of Feb.
(well I will be — if you fancy keeping me company please add yourself to this page)

If you fancy visiting the show, you can register for free before midnight on the 1st of February (after that it costs £15.00 GBP)

oh, and later the same week,

Syndicated 2011-01-17 19:02:05 from chezfil

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