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Now, where was I?

Gunnar asks where people were when woody released. I'll extend that (like Joey) to cover what I was doing during all the Debian releases I was personally aware of.

• Buzz (Monday June 17, 1996): Still a Slackware (hiss!) user at that point, just after my third year exams in Cambridge. On that day, I was trying to help other people around the world who had problems with their "Expertboard" motherboards; I seemed to be about the only person with information on the web about those boards at the time...!
• Rex (Thursday December 12, 1996): I had joined Debian by that time and purged all remnants of Slackware from my system. On that day, I was involved in a campaign against local road changes.
• Bo (Monday June 2, 1997): In the middle of (in theory) writing up my final-year dissertation in Cambridge. On that day, I was instead working on the college web server and organising a net connection for the shared house I was about to move into after graduation.
• Hamm (Friday July 24, 1998): At work at Plasmon, debugging a Solaris build problem. I also was helping my cousin with problems with his new computer.
• Slink (Wednesday March 9, 1999): In theory I was at work, but my mail from that day suggests I spent all day burning Slink CDs and working on slink-cd (the script to create them) instead. This was the first time I was directly involved in the CD creation effort, something I've yet to escape from... :-)
• Potato (Tuesday August 15, 2000): Again, spent most of the day dealing with creating and selling CDs. Organising a trip to the Belgian GP later that month.
• Woody (Friday July 19, 2002): Creating the woody CDs took a lot of effort. At work, new firmware for one of our libraries was causing issues.
• Sarge (end of May 2005?): Hmmm. I have a sneaking suspicion I'll be working on CD and DVD production again. It's my birthday on the 28th, and I may organise a barbecue that day...

It gets a little repetitive towards the end, but that's life as a committed mug^H^H^HDD. *grin*

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