Xavier - could you (or someone) get the BALUG web site updated with information about our program for the March 21st meeting - looks like we should have Tom Limoncelli lined up for that (details further below, including title of talk, etc.). I'll draft an item to go out on the "announce" list noting the speaker/program for the 21st, and hopefully get that out fairly soon (like this week - preferably within the next couple days or so). If there's anything anyone thinks should be added/included for that item to go out on "announce" (e.g. other BALUG 'newsworthy' items of note), just drop a note to the "admin" list (balug-admin@lists.balug.org) and I'll probably make a suitable inclusion of it. Quoting Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu>:

Excellent. We look forward to your talk/presentation. You're welcome to join us as early as 6:30 P.M. - some of us always gather around the restaurant's bar prior to the meeting's official start time of 7:00 P.M. At 7:00 P.M. we start with dinner, and of course you're our welcomed guest (our treat) to dinner, then we transition to presentation/talk portion of the meeting a bit later (typically as folks are >~=2/3 done consuming their dinner). You can find details of our available projection video hook-up here: http://lists.balug.org/htdig.cgi/balug-admin-balug.org/2005-May/000030.html We've also got microphone/PA and laser pointer available. Meeting location: Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108-2113 If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to give us a holler. We look forward to meeting with you, and your presentation.

Quoting Tom Limoncelli:

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Yup! March 21st is great!

Title: Time Management for System Administrators (and everyone else too) Presenter: Tom Limoncelli, Google

Whether you use Perl, Python or Ruby, whether you use Windows, Linux or Unix, all system administrators have a problem with time management.

Users interrupt you constantly with requests, your managers want you to get long-term projects done but flood you with requests for quick- fixed, and the machines you manage just never behave, causing problems at the most inopportune moments.

Tom will discuss techniques he has developed over the last 15 years for dealing with these things --- all of which (and more) can be found in his new book from O'Reilly, "Time Management for System Administrators". http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596007833/tomontime-20 (The book was the #1 computer book on Amazon on Feb 10, 2006)

Tom Limoncelli has over 15 years of system administration experience and has been teaching workshops on Time Management at conferences since 2003. Tom has worked for both large and small organizations, including Bell Labs and AT&T. He speaks at conferences around the world. His previous book, The Practice of System and Network Administration, is considered a standard reference in system administration. He now works at the Google NYC office. His web site is www.EverythingSysadmin.com