CmdrTaco's Journal: April Fools... LinuxWorld...

April Fools is probably my favorite day to post on Slashdot every year. So many entertaining stories to choose from, and a steady flow of humorless angry users irate that their precious Slashdot is not taking the world seriously enough.

The pretty pink april fools day theme was my idea, but implemented by kathleen. The ponies thing was all her. As was some of the wordings, as well as the link to cute overload- a site that got pretty well slashdotted. Sorry about that.

the most interesting part of the day was the things that occured in the tagging system. We'll get some really good data out of the whole thing. Most of the tagging was done in good humor (although some users were understandably offended). But the system can only get better with the data we collect here.

I leave for LinuxWorld in like 6 hours. If you're going to be in Boston for the show, much of Slashteam will be in some sort of lounge area on the show floor tuesday. I think we're also there a fair bit on thursday. Wednesday is mostly sourceforge folks.

I always have mixed feelings on LWCE. I'm not a huge fan of travel in the first place. This year OSTG has a booth for the company which I'm expected to sit in for much of the show. It's been several years since I did this. It's not that it's hard- we just sit and work in a public place instead of a private one. Sometimes users pester us, but most folks are really cool.

I believe there will be wireless net access, so you're welcome to show up and just hang for a bit. We'll be the ones who's skin is pealing off from the flourescent lighting.