Today was the first day of the mini-conferences that lead up to linux.conf.au later on this week. I arrived yesterday after an eventful flight from Perth.

I was originally meant to fly out to Melbourne on the red eye leaving on Friday at 11:35pm, but just before I checked in they announced that the flight had been delayed until 4:00am the following day. As I hadn't had a chance to check in, I was able to get a pair of taxi vouchers to get home and back. I only got about 2 hours of sleep though, as they said they would turn off the baggage processing system at 3am. When I got back to the airport, I could see all the people who had stayed at the terminal spread out with airplane blankets. A little before the 4:00am deadline, another announcement was made saying the plane would now be leaving at 5:00am. Apparently they had needed to fly a replacement component in from over east to fix a problem found during maintenance. Still, it seems it wasn't the most delayed Qantas flight for that weekend and it did arrive in one piece.