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day one in my own sun

23-Jan-08

Here I sit, alternating between browsing “what to do with your life” type blogs and staring into space thinking “WTF?!?!?!?!”.
What do I want to be when I grow up? I can’t say for sure, but so far it’s looking like I’m extremely allergic to being a small cog in a big machine. Thing is, [...]

Bank Of America and interest rates

19-Jan-08

Some history between B of A and myself…
I was originally signed up for a MBNA Linux Fund card. I deliberately chose them over banks like B of A as I didn’t like what I’d read about banks like B of A in various online reviews. B of A bought out MBNA not so long [...]

life’s too short

18-Jan-08

moving on

14-Jan-08

*sigh*

Hi folks,
I’ll be leaving Sun with my last day being Jan 22nd 2008
This was a very hard decision as I’ll be leaving behind some of the best
people I’ve ever had the good fortune to work with, some of the coolest
technologies I’ve ever known, and a working environment that’s second to
none.

catastrophic hard drive failure

18-Dec-07

My main disk died the other night, hence everything’s been offline.
I had backups of all the data, but hadn’t realized I’d not backed up essential config like /etc and /var.
I thought I had an ad hoc backup of the whole OS, but that turned out not to be. A quick fsck and it became [...]