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Farewell to LJ
For me, the love of LiveJournal began to fade when it was sold to Russian business interests. It became, well, something else. Maintenance wasn't great before but it became much worse during the transition. Stability suffered. It was no longer "our" long-form conversational space, but became "theirs," and while that isn't a bad thing in itself, it ( Read more... ) -
Multiple Me
This evening, I had an interesting pair of phone calls ( Read more... ) -
Gym Renovations
I've noticed for some time that my local LA Fitness gym isn't exactly top shelf. It's OK: it has space, a broad range of equipment, a nice yoga room and a cycle room, a large basketball court, and an intermediate-sized swimming pool. Not bad, but not great ( Read more... ) -
And.... 50!
OK, I'm now fifty years old. A half-century. Five decades. 18,262 days (remembering that 2000 wasn't a leap year). About 60% of my lifespan ( Read more... ) -
Winning Sometimes Feels A Lot Like Losing (Or, #FirstWorldProblems)
Every year, the DC Lambda Squares' Harvest Festival Hoedown raffles off a number of large prize baskets. It generates extra revenue for the fly-in, almost as much as dancer registrations themselves, and the event would run in the red if it wasn't for this extra income ( Read more... ) -
File Under "Self-Inflicted Wounds"
Yesterday at work, we received an email from a former employee who left the firm about three months ago. Apparently, he was getting deluged with automated alert txt messages from our systems and wanted them to stop ( Read more... ) -
Migrations in Process
It's been a busy few days but I'm slowly catching up ( Read more... ) -
Solaris EOL
I read rumours this morning that Oracle was going to be shutting down all further Solaris development.
Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be RIF'd in short term. All hands meetings being cancelled on orders from legal to prevent news from spreading. Hardware teams being told to cease development. There will be no Solaris 12, final ( Read more... ) -
Post-Thanksgiving
I'd like to say I had a really great long weekend. Really, I'd love nothing better than to say that. Truly, I would ( Read more... ) -
Injuries & Repairs
Work at the gym continues. I'm enjoying the ride --for the most part. The delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) still kicks my ass from time to time, but that's the price one pays for progress ( Read more... )