July 4th Parade in Merrimack

We walked in support of Governor John Lynch's re-election but also said hello to US Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter and hopefully our future US Senator Jeanne Shaheen.

I don't know who thought of it first, but Trevor got his cast signed and Logan his t-shirt signed by all three of them (and NH 1st lady Dr. Susan Lynch)



After the parade we had a picnic with some friends down at Wasserman Park which was nearly empty. The weather held out and it was a great day.



Here are the rest of the photos: July 4th parade, Merrimack, NH

NH Flickr Group Meetups this Summer

First blueberry!, originally uploaded by marcn.

The NH Flickr Group is planning as photo meetup every Saturday this summer at 5am at some picturesque location.

Last week was at Merrimack's Horse Hill Nature Preserve and this week was at Amhert's Ponemah Bog.

Keep an eye on this discussion group for information on future ones -- NH Flickr Discussion Group

Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama Laughing @ Unity, NH

Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama Laughing, originally uploaded by marcn.

Carol Shea-Porter


Paul Hodes


Jeanne Shaheen


NH Governor John Lynch & Dr. Susan Lynch


Barack Obama


Barack Obama

Barack Obama


Unite for Change

All the photos from the event are here: marcn's buddy icon
Obama/Clinton @ Unity, NH

HP has released AdvFS under a GPLv2 license!

It is nice to see that this well tested filesystem technology has been made available under the GPLv2 and may have another life with Linux.

Press Release HP Contributes Source Code to Open Source Community to Advance Adoption of Linux and the AdvFS site on SourceForge.

@ Ribfest last night

RIBS!, originally uploaded by marcn.

Yummy ribs. But I wasn't brave enough to try deep fried sparklers(!)

My MySQL talk at GNHLUG

Last night I gave my much delayed talk about MySQL at the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group.



BTW, next time you are in downtown Nashua, stop by Martha's Exchange and have a Cherry beer with the Jambalaya -- spicy but delicious!

Smilin' John McCain

Smilin' John McCain, originally uploaded by marcn.

I took a late lunch yesterday and saw John McCain at Nashua's Daniel Webster College.

As you can see he does have a natural smile -- compare that to the horrid 'lime green speech' he gave last week.

I'd guess there were about a thousand people there, mostly older with a few people in their 20s-30s. The crowd only applauded once during McCain's speech before the Q&As, and that was after a 'stay in Iraq until the job is done' line. Dead quiet while talking about immigration, social security, etc.

The rest of my photos are here:
John McCain @ Daniel Webster College