So a picure is worth a thousand words... I'll try and explain this in less than 1000 words. My brother and I were talking about the BitKeeper incident last week. He claimed that the revocation of the BK license to OSDL and that Linus' subsequent droppage of BK is prototypical …

The news of the two men found in Choprock canyon last week hit me really close to home. Not just because I'm from Utah, but also because I have spent a bit of time hiking in the canyons of Southern Utah during my college days. I could envision myself in …

Last Wednesday I attended a very interesting keynote given by Marten Mickos entitled "Scale Out". Here's a few gems that I gleaned from it: He stated that the survivors of the dot com era built their infrastructure on top of open source (and mentioned Yahoo, Google and eBay as examples …

The past few nights our daughter Olivia has claimed that there are monsters in her room (too much Monsters Inc?). She has been sleeping with the lights on. When the lights are on, she is completely calm and has no fear, and finally relaxes and goes to sleep. Pretty easy …

Today I was lucky enough to attend the MYSQL Users Conference for most of the day. The keynote by Marten Mickos which was very interesting (will blog on that later).

It's very interesting to see how far MySQL has come. (We used MySQL for my senior project at school. While …

Tonight I went to the well-attended repeat of Guido's Pycon 2005 talk "The State of the Python Union". He started off by explaining his "beta [crunch] beard" and how he was now addressed as professor due to it. Then he quickly discussed the syntax of generators and how he copied …

Sometime today I was put back in google's index

I have no clue what happened. Are they just toying with me?

So a week ago I was able to install Hoary Hedgehog. What can I say? The install was simple, and it worked. Kubuntu worked as well. I had been itching to install debian for a while to try it out, yet as I'm a more bleeding edge type of guy …

Hmmm, there seems to be a conspiracy brewing. One day I'm blogging about how I'm ranking pretty good for some searches in Google (considering that few read or link to my blog) and the next day Google no longer acknowledges my existence. The three of you that read my blog …

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I was able to go mountain biking for the first time in a few months yesterday. I've only been once since I had a nasty endo last fall at Soquel Demo Forest (picture above), leaving me attending physical therapy for a month.

Yesterday morning it appeared to be a beautiful …