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On Tuesday night I gave a presentation on ZFS to the Central PA Linux User Group. Since the audience was a Linux user group, I wasn’t expecting too many in the crowd to be familiar with ZFS, but I was pleasantly surprised that about 40% of the ~ 20 people in attendance had used ZFS in some capacity. If you are already a seasoned ZFS user, I would highly recommend Richard Elling’s ZFS presentation which he uses in his day-long tutorials.

I had a good time attending the CPOSC event  today, which was held at Harrisburg University.  Got to see lots of old friends and acquaintances and enjoyed the speakers.  At only $35 (which included a t-shirt and food), it was an awesome bargain.  Thanks to John and Eric for doing such a great job organizing the event and all the presenters for sharing their knowledge.

I need to upload  more, but you can see the pics at Smugmug.

I got a new camera this week and went up to  Wildwood Park near HACC to take some pictures today.   I really like the 20x zoom lense (the main reason I bought it), and the image stabilization seemed to work pretty well.   I think it is cool that I was able to see the details of the pollen on the bee.

Bee on a flower

Goose swimming in green alge

We all live downstream

Overrun lake

Main trail

Zerion Software demoing their iPhone framework

I attended a session of the  Central PA New Technology meetup group last night.  They hold monthly meetings in a location that shifts among Hershey, Lancaster, and Harrisburg depending on what facilities are available.   About 40 people were  registered for the event although I think closer to 20 actually showed up.  We got to see a demo of Zerion Software’s iPhone form builder framework and Jake Ray from Penn State’s Smeal School of Business gave a talk about the current venture capital environment.    After Jake’s talk there was some discussion about the Startup Weekend idea.  The official meeting then closed around 8:15 and about a dozen of us moved to a nearby bar and continued talking.  There was a nice mix of people who attended:  IT workers, technical hobbyists,  technical marketing, an intellectual property lawyer and some small business owners.  I enjoyed the experience and am definitely planning on attending additional sessions.