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Show me the way to go home

by | Sat 18 Nov 2006

Astute readers may have observed that this has been a quiet week for my blog. Well, there are a few reasons for this:

* Firstly, we have just performed a server move, and I wanted to keep the databases synced. We have moved from two separate VMs to a dedicated box. This move was due to increasing traffic. So, you can assume far more reliability for my blog in the future.
* Secondly, this week has been [our](https://www.canonical.com/) company conference. We have done lots of presentations, meetings, team building sessions, and there has been plenty of social events.

Right now, I am pretty much flat-lining with tiredness. As many of you will know, I rarely shy away from a night out when at a conference, and I have been out *every single night* for the last two weeks, drunk waaay too much, but still been up every day ready for work. Although I am catastrophically tired, I would not change a moment of it; I have met some incredible people in and around the Ubuntu community and Canonical.

Today is the last day of the Canonical conference and Scott and I head back to Heathrow tomorrow.

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