A Penguin in Purple Clothing

Thursday January 06, 2005

Scott McNealy poked fun of at CES
Here Conan O'Brien pokes fun of Scott McNealy at CES in Vegas last night

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Tuesday November 02, 2004

VOTE!

I know it is probably close to closing time at your polling place, but if you haven't already voted, please go out and VOTE!!

Here are some pictures from my polling place in S.F. (2004-11-02 17:19:55.0) Permalink Comments [1]

Thursday September 23, 2004

C'mon, Try Firefox

If you haven't already switched from using Internut Exploder, you should. Give Firefox a try. This is a kickass browswer. Tabbed browsing, ad blocking, popup blocking, and much much more. Seriously. Don't be scared to install new things. Iz gooooood.

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Monday September 06, 2004

Back from Burning Man

Kat (Aub in the default world) and I got back from Burning Man yesterday night. We bailed a day early because Kat was not feeling well and done with the whole event. It was quite a stretch to get her to come in the first place, but she made it through most of it.

I had a better time this year than last year. Maybe it was because Kat was with me, or because I drank less, or that the weather was better. But, it was a good year and quite an adventure. We had three injuries in our group (none of them serious and not Kat or me). We had a propane tank "explode" when JR forgot to set the lift gate on our truck correctly, it fell 5 feet and the regulator broke off. Most of this happened early in the week, so we had a relatively uneventful second half.

The burn night was fun, but also relatively uneventful. Anyways, I have put the photos we took on the web, so check them out here.

I couldn't post any more on the web while I was there because it was s00per flaky. I guess that is what you get for being out in the middle of nowhere in the most desolate part of North America.

Back to work tomorrow :(

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Sunday August 29, 2004

On The Playa

Hey folks, I am on the playa! YEAH!

After all odds, I have made it. There was much work to get here. I drove my poor Honda to Walnut Creek packed to the gills. It kept hitting bottom on the road. I got most of the shit into the BAT (Big Ass Truck) once in Walnut Creek. Unfortunately, the BAT did not make it whole. A tire blew on the way, and it was a huge ordeal to find a new tire for the truck. The truck arived late after getting the tire replaced. In any event, there is wireles Internet on the playa!

OK, more later...

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Thursday August 26, 2004

John's going away lunch

I have worked with John for many years. When I first came out to Silicon Valley after college, I started at Silicon Graphics. John started two weeks before me. Then, when my firt manager Simon left, John stepped up to the plate to become the manager of the Linux kernel group. John left SGI to go to a startup called Afara and I left to go with him about a month later. He was my manager there. Then, Afara was acquired by Sun and he stayed my manager here over the past two years. Now, John is leaving Sun to go to Apple. He will manage the kernel group there and work for Simon who is the director for OS X at Apple.

Today we are having a going away lunch for John. I will miss having John as a manager since we have develeped a close working relationship over the past 5 years. But, the good news is that Brian will be taking over for the group and so things should go smoothly. Ok, off to the Tied House for me!

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Monday August 23, 2004

Hello World

Hello world. Just thought I'd start this blog site. I am in Sun's NSG East group, working out of Menlo Park, CA.

I am working on Linux on x86_64. This involves supporting a next generation platform with SMP x86_64, PCI Express and Infiniband.

I also am working with the openib.org group to bring a complete and stable Infiniband software stack to mainline Linux.

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