Working for the week in Glendale, CA… like Los Angeles proper, but Norther. So far it’s mostly complaints for me: It’s rained almost every day so I haven’t gotten around much in my oh-so-eco-friendly white rental Prius. The hotel is … Continue reading
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Not So Silent Night == Oh So Good Music
Ended my work week early on Thursday and went out to Oakland to the Oracle Arena with Julie, Ted, and Claire for Live 105’s Not So Silent Night. In short, a rocking concert on most fronts.
Not looking while running drop database == FAIL
Major PEBCAK moment. I was debugging something and ran the drop database command against the wrong database… in fact I destroyed the blog database entirely. Luckily I had a backup, but unluckily it was from two days ago, so I … Continue reading
The Parliamentary Politics of America’s Hat (i.e. Canada)
For those not in the know I’ve been in Calgary all week for a project with our partner Splunk for iStockPhoto.com On the news every night here has been the Prime Minister of Canada trying to keep his job in … Continue reading
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Twilight Tourism in Calgary
Flew into Calgary today a little late after some fog delays this morning backed up the planes at the gates. A last-minute gate change made everyone a little angry but I’m sure that’s how we were only 10 minutes late … Continue reading
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An Auspicious Start
I haven’t boarded yet and I’ve had a lot of good stuff: Was dropped off at the airport by Julie’s door-to-door sexy shuttle service. Smiled at the TSA official at the first class security line who let me cut. Woke … Continue reading
State of Video Games: Killin’ Nazis
I like to play video games. For about the last year there was only one game I would reliably be playing: Rock Band. That was supplanted last month by (surprise surprise) Rock Band 2. There were a couple other games … Continue reading
Next Time, Take the Plane (Or the T, or the Duck!)
This week was another exercise in public transport. I went to Boston on Sunday through Thursday for work. Boston’s a fine place to visit. My sister, Susan, graduated from M.I.T. so I had actually been to Boston once before, but … Continue reading