that’s whacked

bananas for banana bread

Sunday, Nov 27. 2005  –  Category: Musings, Quotage

val and jason were over at our place friday night for the traditional thanksgiving celebration of mahjong and drinking.

val made some zuchini bread which prompted the following exchange (i’m roughly paraphrasing since my memory isn’t 100%):

wendy (to val): this is good…. it’s like the banana bread you used to make jason: ugh. i hate that banana bread. val (to wendy): wasn’t that your recipe? wendy: yeah… jason: whoops.

opensolaris at UCSD

Wednesday, Nov 23. 2005  –  Category: OpenSolaris

i’m going back to my alma mater with eric next tuesday. i’m pretty stoked, as this isn’t just a regular recruiting trip. this is a one-day trip to go down and evangelize OpenSolaris.

Professor Snoeren of the CSE department is letting us hijack an entire class period of his operating systems course to talk about OpenSolaris & Dtrace.

how freaking cool is that? it’ll be way better than the regular conference/trade show presentation cause students are just cooler. they aren’t afraid to ask tough questions (like the ones that make presenters look retarded in front of an audience). anyway, i’m psyched.

the most painfully annoying flight booking experience ever

Tuesday, Nov 22. 2005  –  Category: Musings

omfg. i finally understand geoff’s pain. this is possibly, the most retarded flight booking system ever, and here’s why:

• there’s no quick and easy way to just see one airline’s flights. i don’t care about US Airways, Sun Country, or any of that. just show me American Airlines & United
• morning != 5am. maybe morning is 5am to some people, but not to me. when i select “Morning”, i expect to see flights in between say 8am to 11am.
• while i appreciate that San Jose is in the same general geographic area as Oakland, it’s not at all convenient for me to get there. so please, for f*ck’s sake, stop telling me i should fly out of SJC.
• (this one is from eric) “your SunID is unique” with no further explanation is not an acceptable errour message.

please, just provide me a convenient way to list all flights in one day going from OAK or SFO to MSP on American Airlines. is that so hard? i know it isn’t.

sigh.

to anyone who is considering outsourcing your company’s travel arrangements to someone, i, as a frustrated American, strongly and Expressly urge you not to choose our partner who must not be named.

mia is M.I.A.

Tuesday, Nov 22. 2005  –  Category: Musings

i’ve blogged about mia in the past..

basically she was wendy & lucy (wendy’s sister)’s dog before wendy & lucy went away to college. their friend bernie then took her, and she was bernie’s faithful companion for the past 8 (?, i think that’s right) years. i’ve met her a few times, including a week when we dog-sat her. she was a great dog, and i fell in love with her right away.

so i was saddened to hear bernie call us up last week and tell us that she hadn’t moved or eaten in 4 days. we went to visit last Wednesday evening, and she perked her head up, but that was about the extent of it. she passed away in her sleep later that night.

bernie has some great photos that he blogged this morning.

it’s funny how we can become attached so closely to something as simple as a pet. i barely knew mia, but i already loved her. i can’t imagine what i’ll go through when isis reaches that point. dogs are so simple (in my dog’s case, she seems to have a singular obsession with food) yet complex (it’s great watching her get pissed when we kick her out of our bed and she storms off to her bed and throws her toys around). they’re so innocent, loyal, devoted, and loving that we can’t help but fall in love with them quicker than we can with any human being.

i’m glad that wendy and i were able to visit mia before she passed, and that she passed in her sleep without (seemingly) any pain.

whoa. 24 trance song.

Thursday, Nov 17. 2005  –  Category: Music, Musings

listening to di.fm, i just heard the unforgettable 24 countdown and kiefer saying “the longest day of my life”

lo and behold… there’s a 24 - The Longest Day Armin van Buren remix. weird.

sccs/make binaries

Wednesday, Nov 16. 2005  –  Category: OpenSource

I just posted the SCCS & make binaries to the Tools community. Hopefully these will be useful for developers and distributions…

they’re covered under the same OpenSolaris Binary License as the other OpenSolaris related binaries… so they are freely redistributable.

opensol-20051116 up

Wednesday, Nov 16. 2005  –  Category: OpenSolaris

We just posted Nevada build 27a. SXCR isos are up. The source browser should be updated any minute now. And the sources/BFU archives are up to date too.

And yes, it has ZFS.

(the 27a is because the original 27 was re-spun internally after some ZFS bugs were found)

centrino drivers for solaris

Monday, Nov 14. 2005  –  Category: OpenSolaris

check out the Wireless Networking at OpenSolaris.org page. andrei just uploaded centrino drivers for both the centrino 802.11b (ipw2100 in linux-land), and 802.11g (ipw2200) cards for solaris.

should work in nevada or s10.

it’s a vera wang LIFE

Saturday, Nov 12. 2005  –  Category: Musings

while wendy and i were doing some grocery shopping, we took a 10 minute break to sit down, have some coffee and read. she picked up a wedding InStyle or something, and i couldn’t help but see some of the ads as she flipped through…

Vera Wang perfume … Vera Wang wine glasses … Vera Wang paper ….

???? what’s next? Vera Wang chainsaws??

I can just picture the ad:

“Vera Wang chainsaws. For when your marriage has just gone horribly horribly wrong.”

Minnesota Government Information Technology Symposium 2005

Monday, Nov 7. 2005  –  Category: OpenSolaris, Sun

I’ll be going out and presenting OpenSolaris at the 24th Annual Minnesota Government IT Symposium in St. Paul, Minnesota on December 14th…. so if you happen to be in the area, let me know

I’m nervous since it’ll be my first official Sun presentation (booth babe duty at LinuxWorld doesn’t count), but I’m also excited to present on something so cool. Looks like it should be an interesting convention… there are a few talks I’m looking forward to seeing.

It’ll also be interesting/fun to be in a place that was 15 degrees (F) at the same time last year. Anyone know if there’s anything fun to do in St. Paul besides huddle by the hotel heater drinking wine in the bar to keep warm? I’m half-tempted to bring my snowboard and try out one of the local ski hills (there’s one about half an hour away which looks alright) if they have any night skiing.