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Yesterday I was hoping to go hiking somewhere, but weather forecasts for the Seattle area suggested a 30% chance of rain. In my Seattle experience that typically means "it will rain 30% of the time". With that in mind, I planned a hike within the bounds of civilization; I aimed to walk from my apartment in Redmond to downtown Seattle. For those ( Read more... )

I'm presently on Day 2 of a relaxing 5-day weekend. So why not post?

Earlier this year I had some obnoxious blood pressure problems. Specifically, I had high blood-pressure but then was over-medicated for it, which gave me low blood-pressure (leading to headaches, head-rushes, and generally feeling crappy for the entire month of January). Once my ( Read more... )

Firstly: Yes, I know I never actually update Livejournal with personal content anymore. I've been busy and Facebook is so delightfully low-maintenance. I'm planning to write something soon about what I've been up to. Actually this post tells something about one facet of what I've been doing.

Specifically working hard on Windows HPC Server 2008. ( Read more... )

Time to hop on the bandwagon and blog about the latest TOP500 list.
Windows CCS based-systems are checking in at #106 and #193.

Exciting! The TOP500 is always a fun list to peruse anyway.

I went to check out a file at work today and was greeted with the following message:

... also opened by DOMAIN\t-gregte

Worse yet, the dork has had the file checked-out since December 2005.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/09/delp.dead.reut/index.html

I sometimes have weird dreams and remember them. Rarely are they this geeky, however.

I dreamt I was writing some sort of application in Managed Code, probably C#. For some reason it was highly important that this application run on a broken version of the runtime (or VM for java folks). The runtime was broken such that any heap-memory ( Read more... )

David R. Cheriton on Valleywag:
http://valleywag.com/tech/google/the-frugal-billionaire-227555.php

I spent December 21st through January 2nd back in Ontario and managed to never adjust from PST to EST, sleeping from 5am to 1-2pm most days. Some random things I want to write about:

Nintendo DS-LiteMy parents gave me one for Christmas, along with a bunch of games. I remember when the DS was announced back in 2004, thinking that it looked like a ( Read more... )