This year, for various reasons, I opted for the HDHP (High Deductible Health Plan) health insurance, which is to say a plan which pays nothing until you've satisfied a hefty deductible but (1) I pay no employee contribution for, (2) makes me eligible to have and make contributions to an HSA (Health Savings Account) and (3) in addition to my being ( Read more... )

... on entirely non-work topics: Whedon, The Cabin in the Woods, and rambling into steampunk!

(Beginning review: Wed Jul 9 10:37:57 2008 PDT)
# <- (10:38) From sj [awake (why?!)][WFH], to water, geektalk, Movies ( Read more... )

So, Moore's law doesn't always apply.

Here's a little graph I made a while back to show the number of pixels in my current laptop's display over time. Seriously, wtf? I haven't had this few pixels since last millennium!


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Argh! STUPID FRAKKING BLITHERING IDIOTS... and, of course, the resolution for the problem is, "you should contact your DHCP server vendor to find out how to set up your server to behave stupidly in order to work around our moronic, anti-social, fragile, non-protocol-compliant behaviour which we won't fix because we don't want to" (probably because ( Read more... )

http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=72995 - Redwood City has a new free shuttle service that travels from the CalTrain station to various business areas (including a block from where I work) starting today. Unfortunately, it ends at 9am (ew), ( Read more... )

Got to bed at 23:30 or so. This sounds like a nice early night, until you find out that I got up at 04:30. Did some work and general catch-up, and left to go to the office (because, well, why not beat the traffic?). Well, by the time I left, it was almost 06:00 ( Read more... )

So, today someone sent a message to "schedules" (a mailing list we on the eng/ops side of the building use to let people know when we'll be out of the office, off work for whatever reason, or whatever) which consisted of 3 lines all the same length ( Read more... )

I now have greencard (I-551) status! :-) Back-dated to yesterday. Temporary stamp indicating GC status valid for 1 year, but will only be necessary until I get the physical card in the mail, which should be a fraction of that time! :) Yay! This means I can now work in GC status, rather than H1-B status, and I can travel (and return) at will. Woot ( Read more... )

Today, I interviewed two people. It was depressing ( Read more... )