Archive for March, 2005

Intermission

technology
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We had a bit of an outage there, sorry about that. We ended up doing a bit of an upgrade, and it ended up taking longer to get everything reinstalled again than I was hoping, and it ended up overlapping with my trip to my new job orientation out here in San Jose. Things are going well now. Web services are restored, mysql back in bidnis. If you notice a particular service that still seems to be missing, please email me, and I’ll do what I can.

Every single thing I ordered last night shipped today. After waiting as long as I did for the apple order, all I can say is… this is how its supposed to work. Given shipping timings and such, I should have everything here by … let’s say Tuesday, latest.

Upgrade Ahoy!

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So I decided that instead of spending the money to buy myself the laptop (see previous posts), I’d dump it into a computer upgrade for myself. Its been a long time in the waiting, and I figured I’d do it right.

They lose

technology
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I got a call from the new boss today, and they just ordered me a laptop. Cancelled the order at apple, and I won’t be putting in any other order. Now I just need to figure out if I still want to spend that money on something else nice for …Read the Rest

Deadlines

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Ok, Apple now has 24 hours to make good, or I cancel and go with another laptop. Especially since Alienware now has an offer for the next 72 hours with $500 off their laptops. I don’t need any more incenting than that. So Apple, if you’re listening … Get that …Read the Rest

I was poking around at stuff, and found a page that gives “Clear Sky Predictions” for something like 2700 areas around the country. This is the one for where I’m at: That looks like it gets cut off since its so wide. There is a smaller one that I’m going …Read the Rest

Phew

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I’m really in some strange way completely excited now. I’ve just finished all the eBay paperwork, and sealed the envelope contained my acceptance of the offer and all the associated reams of paperwork. This marks a transition to a new part of my life, and I suppose thats always going …Read the Rest

Palm

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So after a brief hiatus, I’ve reinstalled my Sony Clié back up to what I had before. Got my games back on there. All the software I had purchased or otherwise downloaded, etc. I had sincerely forgotten how much fun the damn thing was. So I’m going to do some …Read the Rest

Book Review

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Angels & Demons – Dan Brown A Decent Distraction This is actually the prequel to The Davinci Code, which was also excellent. Having read my fair share of conspiracy theory books, including many surrounding the Illuminatus and the Masons, I was pleased to see that he maintained about as much …Read the Rest

I have formally accepted the offer from eBay. I will putting in my notice with Sun Microsystems on Monday, and my first official day (crisis of some sort of another notwithstanding) with eBay will be March 28th. I’m very very pleased. I could expound on this for some time, but …Read the Rest

mod_rewrite

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For those of you who’ve played around the inner workings of Apache, or even just done some of the fairly standard stuff with it, you may have at some point stumbled across mod_rewrite. Its actually an incredibly flexible tool when it comes to web servers, allowing all kinds of back …Read the Rest

As some of you know, I’ve been in the process of evaluating two job offers. One from my current employer, Sun, and the other from eBay. Its getting down to decision making time. At this point, all I’m waiting for is to have the respective offers on paper, in my …Read the Rest

Wiring hell

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With the idea of another machine incoming and a certain desire to remain firmly rooted in sanity, I decided to redo the wiring underneath my desk. In the past, say, 4 years, it achieved a certain Zen-like state of rat’s nest-edness. To unravel it would require the patience of a …Read the Rest

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