VP Debate Photo

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Cheney vs Edwards

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Joined a Soccer Team

My knee is now to the point that I’m ready to play in a local soccer league. My first game is this Sunday in Van Nuys. Wish me luck and no injuries. I’ve been watching World Cup Highlights so I’m ready to samba the beautiful game.

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Some More Pics Of Twiggy

Response.Redirect vs Server.Transfer

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When conducting phone interviews, I like to ask a few technical questions just to make sure that a candidate isn’t trying to blow smoke up my… well we don’t need to be overly illustrative do we?

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Mother-In-Law Visiting

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Akumi’s mother is visiting us from Tokyo for a couple weeks. I have to say, if she decided she wanted to move in, I would not complain.

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Clubs In L.A. and The Price Of A Drink

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With my brother-in-law in town from Tokyo, it is important that we survey the local club scene. Serious business. The past two Saturdays we went out to see different DJs at Avalon. I’m not sure I want to go back any time soon.

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VIDEO: Flying To India For Tech Support

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This is a hilarious video from the Conan O’Brien show.

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My Four Tips For Job Seekers

Ok, I just have to take a moment to rant a bit. We’re currently looking for some mid-level developers as well as a System Administrator. Naturally we posted a job description on Dice.com and craigslist.org. In general I find the best candidates through referral, but occasionaly I’ll get a few good ones through a job site.

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Burning Man: Three Person Pedal Powered Ferris Wheel

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My buddy Ed posted some pics from Burning Man this year. This pedal powered Ferris wheel particularly caught my eye. How cool is that!

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IM Is Not Safe! Spread The Word

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Boyfriend Arm Pillow

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You gotta love the Japanese for making such interesting products. The company that makes this disembodied arm pillow has sold 1000 units since last December. It’s actually genius if you think about it.

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Meet Twiggy

Twiggy is our new Italian Greyhound (not to be confused with a normal greyhound). She’s around two years old (we don’t know for sure) and she has a major case of Attention Deficit Disorder. Fully grown, she’s only ten pounds.

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Cluster F*ck. When Good Hard Drives Go Bad.

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Yesterday was a crazy day. Our production site runs on an older Dell disk array with three logical volumes each set up in a RAID 1+0 configuration. For you non geeks out there, RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (though some claim the I stands for Inexpensive, I take no stand on this issue).

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Mission Accomplished. New Doggy In The Family.

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A little while ago I said we’ve decided to adopt a doggy. Well we did it. On Saturday we got a call that an Italian Greyhound was in need of a home immediately. So we drove out to Visalia (about three hours north of L.A. a little past Bakersfield) and picked her up.

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Interviewing

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I’m conducting some phone interviews today for a C++ contractor/employee. Man it’s been a long time since I’ve conducted interviews. I wish I kept a list of my favorite questions to ask.

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I'll Never Get The Fashion Industry

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My wife is in the fashion industry and as much as I love her dearly, I’ll never understand the industry. At least she’s a pattern maker and not a designer, so she has no responsibility for this garbage.

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Enabling IPv6 For Your .NET Application

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RSS Bandit Developer Torsten points out a very long and arduous process for enabling IPv6 in your .NET application. Here is the extremely tedious set of instructions.

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Smoggy Day

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My office is 17 floors up with a nice view towards the Pacific. The ocean is a few miles away, so all I see is a sliver of blue on a clear day.

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Wintellect Site Is Down...

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I doubt these guys went out of business, but they’re site has been unavailable since last evening. Perhaps someone bumped into the power switch?

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I Forgot That I Am An MCSD

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