On Thursday, my Thinkpad T60 arrived. So I had some fun setting up Linux on too new
hardware, but it went almost well. The only thing that does not work yet is suspend, but I’ll
probably be able to fix this. Right now, some libata driver oopses or hangs the machine on resume.
Luckily, the thing is really fast, it compiles my custom kernelpackage in about 6 minutes, including
drivers needed. Makes debugging driver problems fun. ;-)
Last night, we went out to Doornroosje where a
concert of Tony Allen Bigband
was taking place. Really good stuff, jazzy music with a lot of African influences. After the gig, I
figured it would be a good thing to buy one of their CD’s, I liked the music, and I think it’s a
good thing to circumvent the big record labels in this way. Said, done.
I was asked if I’d
like to have my copy of their album signed, and that I could have done that backstage, sure, why
not.
The female lead singer had a ballpen, so I asked her if she’d sign the booklet. I tried to
make a joke telling her that I wasn’t even asking for her telephone number. She apparently didn’t
get that (admittedly poor) one and was enthousiast that I was asking her telephone numer. She wrote
down her nigerian cellphone number, along with her emailaddress and I had to promise her that I’d
either call or send an email. Totally freaking weird.