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When I started my University Odyssey, it was at San Jose State University as a Comp-Sci major.  I did not ever finish though and ended up working full-time at Sony.
Sometime during my career at Sony, I figured out that I should probably finish up a degree of some sort.  I signed up for classes [...]

I caught this on Jeremy’s blog earlier — it’s a reference to Tim O’Reilly’s blog posting with advice for Yahoo!.
So before I start let me give the standard disclamier:  I am writing as a normal person, not as a Yahoo! employee.  None of this reflects what my employer feels or thinks or is doing [...]

Shouldn’t a tool that is advertised to help people open those f*cking blister packs (whoever invented them should be shot), NOT BE PACKED IN A BLISTER PACK?  The packaging even reads, “No more hard to open packaging…”  It should come with an asterisk — might I suggest:  “* after this one.”

Eileen, Jacob and I were toasting at home — and we just had to get out of the house to enjoy some air conditioning.  We had gone to the mall and Fry’s earlier.  It was too early for dinner.  We had a bag of old mobile phones to donate, so we jumped in the car [...]

Again?  Really?  Sigh.
Can’t we just all be friends?  I guess not.  It is all business.

Linux is back on my notebooks.  It’s Fedora 9 Sulpher.  Here are my quick thoughts:

Intel 3945abg works out of the box!  This was true with Fedora 8 also.
My Atheros-based card works out of the box!  This was not true with Fedora 8 and I am so happy it is true with Fedora 9.  ath5k [...]

Update:  Ugh, I pushed the wrong button and deleted this post.  Reposting from memory and half of an unpublished version.
I have been using MyBlogLog for a while now.  I like it a lot.  I tried out FriendFeed the other day and it is basically the same thing as MyBlogLog, but not as nice.  And [...]