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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 [...]

Animals don’t have feelings?

02-Dec-07

Check out this herd of altruistic buffalo, then try convincing me animals are dumb!

Norcal TG trip camping with pooches

28-Nov-07

I had a great trip last week. Last minute organized a road trip up highway 1 through Big Sur, Monterey, Santa Cruz, visiting some friends in Fremont for dinner. Camped out on Thanksgiving night in a dog friendly camp ground.. lots of other pooches. Indy and Gizmo had a blast exploring everywhere, in the camp [...]

wealth thought for the day

13-Nov-07

I got up super early the other day to catch a plane to fly to northern California for a few days for a number of customer meetings. I got up before 5am so I could be at the airport for a 7am flight.
For many people around Los Angeles getting up at 5am to do a [...]

vanity thought for the day

13-Nov-07

You’re probably not going to get the haircut you’d hoped for if, when you walk into the hairdressers, you notice two of them arguing at the back of the shop, one accusing the other of “stealing her stuff”, and then you get end up getting “the accused” as the person designated to model the hairstyle [...]