Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2012
I frequently eat weekend/late night breakfast in diners alone, with iPad in tow to catch up on books I’m reading or browse Wikipedia over few cups of coffee. Despite iPads being out for a couple of years now and practically all over the media, strangers sitting next to me frequently stare inquisitively and ask what […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2012
Firefox is dead to me. In the early days, Firefox was leaps and bounds better than anything else out there, and that was fantastic. Now it feels incredibly slow and every time I turn around I’m being nagged about wanting to apply an upgrade. We’re jumping major version numbers like some sort of Microsoft Office […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2012
Looking through old photos I often wonder how I had so much time to do and see things in Texas. Then I realized that I lived there six years and I’ve barely been here a few months. The weekends fly by so fast now. Hot weather finally arrived and it feels fantastic! Completely clear and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2012
A couple of weekends ago I happened to catch Richard Misrach’s Oakland-Berkeley firestorm exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California. I was only vaguely aware of the firestorm since it happened in ’91, long before I met anyone here, so it was interesting to learn some local history. Basically something started a fire, and intense, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2012
@lindvall: Feeling a lot of déjà vu from Shit Silicon Valley Says at Seattle Beta.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2012
This has certainly been an adventurous move, mainly because of how open-ended it was, which then turned into “oh shit, what” when the snow storm hit Seattle. Despite the panic about last minute obstacles, so far they’ve been overcome. I’m not complaining, just what a ride! I initially put off moving a week because I […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2012
So I’m moving to California to seek out new opportunities. This should be no surprise to anyone who’s known me, since I’ve rattled on about it incessantly in one form or another (not to mention basically driving/flying down every chance I get). I’ve wanted to live there my entire career since that’s where the action […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2011
On a less serious note, I miss you Continental Airlines. You never angered me, not even once, in 90,000 miles of travel which is pretty amazing. Being from Austin made it super easy to catch your flights out of Houston. Your express customs lanes and priority baggage loading were so awesome! Even international coach was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2011
The past 24 hours have been surreal. I unexpectedly had to put Patch to sleep this morning. Over the past month or two Patch had slowly been losing weight and being more reserved. I always attributed this to Felix bullying her, since he was getting big enough to push her out of the way at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2011
I’m doing my second greenfield OpenNMS deployment, and so far it’s going a lot smoother than last time. This time it’s server-centric which is a whole new can of worms to figure out. I don’t yet know how feasible it will be to monitor services like Exchange or SQL Server. My last setup never really […]
