We had a good brunch today. Friends Heather, Damien, Niko, Karine, Sarven, Brigitte and John all came over for some quiche, roasted potatoes, green salad, bread, cheese, wine, beer, asparagus, coffee and papaya. All in all a good time.
We'd hoped to walk over to our new house at 4690 rue Pontiac with anyone who wanted to see it. The previous owner was packing the last of his stuff today, and we were supposed to pick up the keys this evening. But we hadn't heard from him by 7PM, so we packed everyone off to home and put the baby to bed.
Then he called at 8PM, so I drove over to the new house and had a chat with him while picking up the keys. He had a couple of leftover Boréale Cuivrées, so we drank them while he showed me around the house. I helped him take the last of his cleaning supplies out to his car, and then I went back inside, to our house.
Wow.
I just walked around for a little while, turning on and off the lights and looking through the windows and trying to imagine what our life there is going to be like. We're not going to move in for another 2 months, so it seems a little remote.
The house felt nice, though. It's on a quiet street in a great neighborhood, and I could tell it was a good place to live. I'm excited to get started with it.
tags: house 4690 rue Pontiac homeowner keys
Hey IBM
Now that OS/2 has reached its end-of-life, it's time to release as much code as you can out of it under a liberal Open Source license. There are millions of lines of code in OS/2, and I doubt that much of the Microsoft code written in the 80s is still there.
IBM talks a mean game about Linux and Open Source (see http://www.ibm.com/linux ), and to a large part they've been pretty true to their word. But having a huge codebase available that could very clearly benefit the Open Source world, and that's not being developed further, is a bad idea.
Clear the rights, release the software. Abandonware is a terrible thing to waste.
tags: os/2 ibm open source