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My lovely wife completely surprised me last night when she gave me…well, a surprising second part of my graduation and birthday gift!
Yes, she got me the watch of my dreams!  Thirteen years ago, when I was a mere 20 years old, I saw a Omega Seamaster Professional on Pierce Brosnan’s wrist in GoldenEye — and [...]

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 [...]

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  Reposting from memory and half of an unpublished version.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 [...]

I admit I am no front-end web developer.  For me, writing code for a website is basically:

Does this work?  Yes.  Cool.
Does it really work?  Yes.  Awesome.
Does it look kind of decent?  Yes.  Nice!
Can I do some security stuff with it?  Kind of.  Good.

Yesterday was Crack Day at Yahoo! and I guess Alice was in [...]

So, uh, I can code in PHP. I can even do some MySQL stuff. Really, I convince myself over and over again that I can.
Anyways, I was getting into the whole Twitter thing. I think it is pretty good as a microblog. But, I like to have my data for [...]

It’s over. After dozens of shots. After endless pains. After countless dental visits. After getting Electrosurged. After almost a year, my tooth is finally fixed. I got the crown put on today and my tooth is back. I now talk with a strange lisp because it feels [...]