[H-GEN] Room Bookings Update

[Greg Black]

On 2009-01-19, Paul Gearon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> wrote:
>>> Yes, I'll figure it out, but gee, it would be nice to have a room full
>>> of knowlegable people to help.  :-)
>> 
>> And the other beauty of Humbug is there is a room full of people
>> who would love do so.
> 
> Yeah, I know. Hence my mentioning it. HUMBUG still has a place in
> doing this, despite installations *usually* being easy.
> 
> I'm sure I'd find something locally, but I'd have preferred HUMBUG. At
> HUMBUG I wouldn't have minded looking like the idiot that I am, but at
> the local LUG I'd feel obliged to establish some kind of 'cred',
> meaning that I really need to figure it out for myself.  :-)  (Ah, the
> trials of the ego. My wife would laugh at me for this)

Paul, you really hit the nail on the head there: I just love the way I
can turn up at Humbug and happily help people with my expertise in one
domain while being the complete newbie idiot in another.  (There are
lots of other benefits too, but I'll leave them for another day.)

Greg