I seem to be developing a taste for Coca-Cola Blak. Given the general reaction the product has attracted so far, that's probably up there with admitting I have a taste for blood-flavored milkshakes. Mmm... milkshake.

My blood-flavored milkshake brings all the vampires to the yard.

Participated in a panel discussion about the distribution today. Well, I wouldn't call it participating, exactly, because it was more about silently shivering while other panel members fielded questions from the audience (and the panel had more people in it than the audience did). Which is the main thing I don't like about traveling: I seem to catch whatever's going around.

Which means that my weekend is pretty much shot as I try to rest up and drink lots of fluids. I won't get to try the brownie recipe Jonathan sent me, or try variations on the ones I'd been making, at least not for a while.

I read on the mailing lists that East Arlington's Feast of the East (tagline: "food, fun, and freebies") had to be moved to tomorrow due to today's rain. The Feast is a pretty fun low-key festival during which the local restaurants put up roadside tents and serve the people who walk by. I went last year, and it was rather pleasant, though the heat was off-putting. Hopefully I'll feel good enough to go tomorrow.

The talk schedule so far has seemed somehow less frantic — there was Jeremy's Fedora talk, which was less lively than yesterday's BoF, and then I got to check out Andrew Cagney's frysk talk, where he wowed the crowd by telling frysk to start watching the process group of a shell which he was running in a terminal, launching firefox from the terminal, killing the firefox process, and letting frysk take him to the line of code where it exited. Can't wait to start using it.

In other news, a little disappointed that the link swarming facility of mugshot seems to already be in the progress of becoming part advertising venue, part news aggregator, which may not have been the intent. [shrug]

Had a rather nasty allergy attack set in just after lunch — they say that Nashville has some of the highest pollen counts in the country, and I believe it. A dose of my allergy medication and a short nap later, I'm feeling much better.

Today's the first official day of the Red Hat Summit. I got to go to some really good talks this morning (at Jonathan Blandford's talk, I finally got what Sabayon is about, and Niels Happel's talk on how one customer rolled out smart cards for clients with 56k bandwidth was riveting), but decided to bail on the afternoon sessions which followed the Fedora BoF to catch up on email and work on my talk.

One vaguely unsettling thing is that I'm seeing various people bringing up bits and pieces of information that might have figured into my talk, and at this rate it'll turn into a "this is all stuff you probably already heard scattered among six or seven other talks, so I won't be offended if you decide to catch your plane instead" wasteland.

Seriously, The Grand Ole Opry. And I didn't find my ticket to last night's show until I opened the welcome packet this morning.

One thing which Jonathan touched on lightly in his talk is that yes, we'd like to start offering integrated smart card login in the next RHEL release. Lots of things have to happen before we can really do it, but wheels are in motion.