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I enjoyed all the movies like Sundance and the Sting; but mostly I enjoyed the style and essence of the life of the man. One saving grace is that we have a body of work of his that spanned 50 years give or take which gives us a view of both the legend and the [...]

One of my tasks at work these days is to build a knowledge management solution for the company. We have Redmine in place which I favor; but if you want to manage knowledge, you have to be sensitive to its requirements and dissemination. Otherwise, the very people that would normally use a tool will swear [...]

Sometimes when I’m commuting somewhere here; I look at the hills around Fremont and Newark here in the SF Bay area. The Hayward hills remind me of hills I used to clamber over back in the way gone days. When the sun rises over those hills, I sometimes remember being there. I remember when the [...]

I’ve been playing around with two cool virtualization technologies. One is on my almost brand spanking new Windows Server 2008 box. This box is a AMD64 dual core 6000+ with 6g of memory. It runs most stuff very robustly and VMware Server and/or Hyper-V are no exception. Unfortunately, on Ubuntu 7.10 AMD64 I can [...]

I ended up moving some stuff around here and took a database backup which was missing this blogpost. Scribefire kept it in the editing window so I am reposting it. The thoughts still run true on the whole Linuxworld Expo experience…
I visited Linuxworld Expo for the day yesterday. It was yet again different and [...]

Its getting to be that time of the year again. People are booking rooms in San Francisco, packing up suitcases, perhaps traveling at the behest of their company. They’re seeking out news of the Penguin in the wonnerful city by the Bay. They may travel long or short distance and if they’re exhibitors their feet [...]

What’s the best about traveling? Some would say getting home. It was a 12 hour plane ride where I slept, ate, read most of the time. I managed to sleep for periods up to 3 hours each time which was a joyous reprieve from the monotony of the long ride home.
Jetlag is real though. [...]

I’m at the last stop in my tour of company bastions of appliance freedom. Chennai, India is the home of our Linux-based team which I have looked forward to linking up with since I’m just a Linux guy at heart. And it was good today. Meetings, discussion, and formative statements all made me feel that [...]

I was lucky in my trip to Singapore in that Art also was here at the same time. Tonight, we got together for dinner and a few drinks. In this globetrotting, gas expensive, and almost alienated world; its pretty kewl to get together with someone who came out for work as well and that you [...]

Last Friday I took a day in San Francisco. Went to visit my friend Simon that does Product Management over at Groundworks Open Source, then went to visit another potential partner, and then on to GBs. GBs is one of the places along the Embarcadero in SF that holds many memories. Used to be I [...]