Author: Av
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Rolling over
And I missed it by one day! Brandy just said to me about the baby: “Okay so i spoke too soon he saw something on the bed he liked while i was changing his diaper, put both arms towards it, you could see his tummy flex & over he went  cracked me up!” He is…
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Sickness sicks
My sister-in-law and nephew have been slightly sick recently, but they all have pretty good immune systems it seems. I, on the other hand, weigh in at 135lbs and 5′ 10″ tall. I do not have a great immune system. In fact I have such a bad immune system, that I would currently lose a…
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My first oil change
Taking this time off work to bond with the new baby has also given me a little time to spend doing the things I enjoy, and things that need to get done around the house. Today I changed the oil filter on the car, and interesting experience to be sure. For anyone else with a…
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Linux on the Desktop at Google
Yes, Google has a linux distribution it uses for desktops. Yes, it’s called Gubuntu (a prize for anyone who can guess which other distribution it might be based on 🙂 For those of you in SoCal, Vince Busam, a current Google systems engineer will be giving a talk on Google’s use of Linux on the…
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New FreeBSD article
While it’s true that Google widely uses Linux, you’d be amazed at how many BSD and Solaris advocates work here. The number I’ve met is quite large indeed. Maybe even large enough to our own Special Interests Groups (SIGs) with regular meetings. Without further ado, my latest onlamp.com article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/02/16/os_fingerprint_filtering.html
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The hardest thing about working at Google..
I think I’ve figured it out. At my last company, it was easy to become the superstar systems admin. All you had to do was learn the basics and then relentlessly tackle the tasks no-one else wanted to or knew how to. The problem with working at Google however is that everyone else already knows…
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Major surgery, part 2
Jaedan was born at 13:41 PST on Feb 14th 2006, by caesarian section. Mother and child are both home and doing well 🙂 Pictures available here.
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Major surgery, part 1
About two weeks ago, the alternator on our car died. Replacing this was a minor task, completed in about an hour. A week later the fuel pump also died, requiring major surgery to repair. The operation took two days of working in near-freezing temperatures. My brother-in-law Jaime came by to do the work, with me…
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Efficiency in bureaucracy
In order to file my 2005 US federal tax return electronically, I needed my Adujsted Gross Income from 2004. “Hmm, I don’t have that,” I think to myself. Not a problem! Call the IRS at 1-800-826-1040, access your personal tax account, enter your social security number, press 1, press 0, and the nice lady on…
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