• July 6th-July 10th: Istanbul, Turkey. I’ll be there for GUADEC and I’m speaking on Wednesday. Hopefully to re-iterate how important the web and its users are, talk about some of the cool stuff coming down the pipe and how GNOME might be able to take advantage of that.
• July 15th: Boston, MA: I’ll be at this Web Innovators Group: Boston event. I have no idea what to expect from this. Maybe some innovation or something. On the web. Come and talk to me about Mozilla, Firefox or Whoisi if you want. I’ll be the one standing in the corner looking lonely.
• July 21st-July 26th: Portland, OR: I’ll be out in Portland for OSCON Open Mobile Exchange. I’ll be speaking on Monday about Mozilla + Mobile and the awesome work we’re doing. The wife and very cute baby will be with me on this trip and we intend to take most of the rest of the week off hanging out with friends and seeing that part of the country.
• July 26th-August 1st: Vancouver, BC: Firefox summit plus one day early in Vancouver to explore it. I’ve never been and I hear it’s a nice city.

If anyone wants to meet up to discuss things, let me know. I’ll be around!

I go out to the store this morning and buy one, bring it home, plug it in and I decide to try and figure out what kinds of loads various things sitting on my desk create. I have a little Verizon router for FIOS – it uses about 5 watts. The external USB hard drive about 8 watts. The mac mini that I have running Fedora 8 on it uses about 7 watts. Not too bad, all things considered.

So I decided to drop the router and the drive and find out how much the mini drew when it was running and how much it drew when it was suspended. So I unplugged them and then suspended the mini. The power went from 7 watts to 10. Huh? I started the mini back up and the power usage dropped back to 7. Suspend, it jumps back up to 10. That’s right. My mini running Fedora 8 uses more power when it’s suspended than when it’s sitting at an idle desktop.

I have a new rule. Richard Hughes isn’t allowed to complain about anything Firefox-related until my computers running Linux use less power suspended than when they are sitting at an idle desktop.

1 firefox window
7 firefox tabs
7 emacs windows
25 emacs buffers
4 gnome-terminal windows
13 gnome-terminal tabs

What about you? What do you have open at this very moment?

Seriously, though, I’m going to check out those feeds you mention. Except for the snowboarding because I’m not awesome enough for snowboarding.