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20040924 Friday September 24, 2004

[ Sun Microsystems Inc. ] 325 Miles-A-Week For Sun

I'd like to introduce a colleauge on these pages. (I will be doing this more regularly as the occasion permits.)

Yes, it's the guy on the left. His name is Kazem Ardekanian. Kazem must be one of the most unassuming people I know at Sun.

I first met Kazem last year while we both worked on a project involving a distributed failure detection module built on a group communications infrastructure. He built and scripted a distributed test framework to find the behavioral limits of the group communications system.

My wife and I ran into Kazem while shopping in Palo Alto a couple of weekends ago. Kazem had ridden his bicycle from Fremont to Palo Alto as an "exercise" on this Saturday morning.

He rides his bicycle to work every day, from Fremont to Santa Clara. In case you don't know how much riding that is, it comes up to about 325 miles a week. According to Kazem, he goes through bicycles very quickly. I think this is his third commuting bike since he joined Sun (about 5 years ago).

Something very important about Kazem is that he is also a great cartoonist, and not just any cartoonist. Many of his cartoons are very specific to our work at the Java Enterprise Server Software Research and Development group. I particularly like the ones about P1 bugs turning into P4 bugs upon the realization of the architectural purity of a module, the naughty QA guys busting the golden builds and an engineer working on a tightrope of workarounds . . .

Hopefully, Kazem will find a way to publish some of his cartoons (which are copy-righted to him) for a larger audience to see, perhaps in a weblog of his own . . .

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