VGER suffered a major disk failure and it was not easy to bring the machine back up cleanly.
Thanks to the incredible efforts of Matthew Galgoci, Matti Aarnio, and others, it is back up now and slowly but surely the mail queue is running what should be quite an impressive backlog :-)
I just returned from a wonderful 10 day trip to Japan, during which I gave a presentation on multi-queue networking for the Linux Foundation Japan Symposium.
Most of my time was spent in Tokyo, but I was able to make 3 exciting trips outside the city.
On Sunday March 9th, Kazunori Miyazawa gave us a tour of the Kamakura region and Enoshima.
On Friday March 14th we took the hikari shinkansen to Osaka, during which I was able to experience "kuidaore" (literally "to ruin oneself by extravagance in food") in the Dotonbori district of the city.
That evening we travelled to Kyoto and slept at a ryokan at which we had a traditional Japanese breakfast the next morning.
Finally we spent that Saturday exploring Kyoto, mostly the eastern section.
Finally we hopped back onto the shinkansen in the evening to get back to Tokyo.
On Sunday I was able to meet up with other members of the USAGI Project for dinner, several of whom were unfortunately travelling and thus outside Japan during most of my stay.
All in all it was a great trip, and I already have a list of places and things I want to explore next time!