Ugh. I’ve been cancelled again. I was planning to give an Apache-releated talk to a bunch of Yahoo! engineers in Sunnyvale next Thursday, but somone else has stolen the conference room from me. Yahoo! Engineering has a great tradition of “Thursday Lunchtime Tech Talks.” Every Thursday we reserve a big conference room upstairs from the […]
I flew back from SJC to LAX tonight and got a taste of what air travel is going to look like tomorrow, the busiest air travel day of the year. It was busy. Very busy. Two years after 9/11 it appears that Americans are no longer afraid of airplanes. Instead of the usual business traveller […]
I’ve been seeing more and more bzip2-compressed files these days, and I want to be able to open these files in GNU Emacs without the need to decompress them. About 10 years ago I copied someone’s ~/.emacs file and noticed some mention of a crypt++ module. I asked them what it did and they told […]
On the morning of Monday, November 17th, Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn-in as the 38th Governor of California on the west steps of the State Capitol.
For the most part, blog comments have turned into a distributed link farm for perscription drug and porn websites. Instead of a vibrant community of ideas, about half the comments on my blog are a steady stream of Viagra, Propecia and Phentermine ads. I’ve had enough of this crap. Instead of disabling comments altogether, I […]
I’m not exactly what you’d call an “action sports” type of guy, but a friend of mine is opening a hip new store in Los Angeles. If you’re into skating/snowboarding/BMX/surfing, apparently this store is a dream come true. Ninestar is having its grand opening (a “Kickass Kickoff Event”) this Saturday November 15. They’re located at […]
I recently “read” Steve Martin’s most recent novel The Pleasure of My Company. It’s an excellent book. I use “read” in quotes, because I purchased the audio book instead of the written book. I’ve listened to only one audio book before (the first Harry Potter book which I snagged from KaZaA before the RIAA flooded […]
Theo cut his hair and now looks a helluva lot like his bro. Add some glasses and they’re twins. Wait a minute, they’re not really twins, are they? (via Zak)
Moved my blog to a new ISP. Testing 123. (Hey, that rhymes!)
My brother forwarded me this unfortunate news about Southwest Airlines’ frequent flier program: “After seven years of double credit for online flight bookings, Southwest is calling the promotion quits. Southwest loyalists have until December 31 to book tickets online and earn four credits per round-trip flight.” [Smarter Living] This means that I’ll be earning only […]