Spent today touristing around Ottawa. Visited the Kreighoff exhibition at the National Art Gallery; wandered around the outside of the Houses of Parliament.

It's cold: about -10C and windy outside all day. I can see how one would acclimatise. My cheeks feel rubbery and so I have to overarticulate my words as if I was drunk. Sunir says it's the second coldest capital after Moscow. I would have expected some of the Scandinavian countries to be worse, but I can believe it.

Sunir shares a house with two other CS students. It's eerily similar to a geek house I shared while at UQ: midnight runs to get donuts, messy bedrooms, semi-socialized conversations. For some reason I seem to have a lot of deja vu on this trip.

It seems strange to meet computer geeks who're still primarily running Windows... as if they were still cooking on a wood stove or something. Perhaps my perspective is skewed.

Semi-socialized? At least, I erase my cookies. How rude! I guess you learnt a lot at the privacy conference. ;) Hope you had a good flight, even if I snored through your departure. --ss

ObFreeSoftware: A cool open source company is interested in using/helping with rproxy/rsync-3; hopefully we can meet in SF next week.