For anybody who follows LJ more closely than Facebook or Twitter: I finally finished my PhD! (Okay, technically it was a couple weeks ago and I'm being late posting it here, but what's a week or two over the course of 6 years?)

Just had my first two golf outings this weekend... 18 holes at Fountain Springs and 9 holes on the par 3 at Pipestem State Park. I shot a charitable 120 at Fountain Springs -- there was nobody behind us so my dad and brother gave me several mulligans, and ultimately on hole 17 I dropped on the fairway after hitting four balls into the weeds, never ( Read more... )

Random nerdy post of the day: Today I wanted to have my code dump its maps at the end of execution, but I was being too lazy to actually open /proc/self/maps and read it myself to write out. So instead, I forked cat /proc/self/maps. Clearly, this was not correct...

It just occurred to me that I didn't make any followup post about my interviewing/job hunt. I accepted a position at Microsoft working on Failover Clustering in Windows Server, so I should be moving out toward Redmond and starting there some time in the fall.

Yesterday's interview was somewhat shorter. One of the interviews' technical question was more abstract about what you have to do if you take a page fault on an instruction fetch. The first programming question was how you determine the next node in an in-order binary tree traversal, given only a pointer to the current node and a node with left/ ( Read more... )

I had a phone interview with Corensic today. Just one technical question, on which I did well enough that they decided to fly me out to Seattle at the end of the month for a full on-site interview. The question was given two sets implemented as sorted integer arrays, find the intersection and discuss the run time. Then how would you change it if ( Read more... )

Random thought: I'm a little surprised that the RIAA doesn't issue takedown notices for the copies of the takedown notices on ChillingEffects. After all, unless the host takes down all the links instead of just the mentioned ones, the site list on the takedown notice is a great shortcut to finding MP3 blogs.

For anybody who didn't know (see on Facebook/Twitter), I interviewed at Microsoft today ( Read more... )

Got my first hate mail as a music critic today. Oddly enough, it was for a review from five years ago, and not even (close to) the worst review I've written. Some woman tracked me down on Facebook and asked if I'd heard of the band Control_Z, and when I said yes, asked if I was the one who's slammed them in a review. When I said, "Quite possibly ( Read more... )

Random thoughts about the "success" of the CD I released back in May...

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