Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2011
While driving around today at lunch enjoying the sun, my mind was surprisingly at ease and I had a profound realization: Everything I have is because of thought. At the purest level, I sit around, people give me problems to solve, I think through them and present a solution. That’s it. I don’t do any […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2011
Ever since my fuel pump made a loud whining noise all throughout Arizona for Burning Man 2009, I’ve always said it’s going to die and strand me someday and I should really get it replaced before then. This Friday was the night it decided to die. I was driving across the I-90 bridge going into […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2011
While in Redmond, I’ve discovered two delicious sources of food. One is the medium especial salsa and restaurant-style tortilla chips from Trader Joe’s. It’s a great mix of heat and salty, mmm. The other is the coconut curry from Tandoori Fire just down the street. I’ve been trying new Indian places lately and have re-discovered […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2011
I learned a hard lesson in PostgreSQL administration, in particular what happens when tables aren’t vacuumed. I come from a MySQL background and haven’t fully learned what it takes to keep Postgres humming along. I had recently moved the OpenNMS database to another host in an attempt to throw more spindles at a UI slowness […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 22nd, 2010
I gotta move. The winter solstice was yesterday and the sun just set behind the trees at 3:47 PM. It doesn’t help that Redmond is in a valley so it sets early. I made the 405 – 90 – Seattle – 520 – Redmond loop this afternoon to soak in the sun while it was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2010
OpenNMS has a sharp learning curve. While very useful in specific cases, the OpenNMS wiki lacks continuity and in some cases authoritative answers. It seems like every article is where somebody worked out the details of some specific problem and just dumped all the details into a wiki entry. The in-between bits aren’t clear and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2010
The changing season and weather here has been a trip. For the first month or two here, it was partially cloudy, but still quite a bit of sun. Even though it’s sunny, being outside has always felt weird. It took me a while to realize that because the sun is so low on the horizon, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2010
I got inspired this week to fiddle with OpenNMS. Reading the website makes me think it does * and has great potential. Looking at the modular design and the event system, it just “feels right”. It is Java-based with all XML-based configs, which really doesn’t bother me. I like the idea that it has built […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2010
The other night I was driving home and in some random apartment window I see two girls with a baby. One was holding/rocking it while she was talking to the other girl. It made me think that’s a lifetime memory in the making that will be forever repeated to the child. “Oh I remember how […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2010
If you’re like me, you have a home LAN filled with various contraptions, computers, mobile devices and the ubiquitous server in the closet. Usually there’s no DNS zone containing your home devices, if anything, maybe a static /etc/hosts entry on your desktop to give a short hostname to your closet server. Otherwise, people just use […]
