I felt kind of weird, I’m not used to having so much time off. The weeks leading up to holiday I was staying very busy trying to manage my time between 3 projects all belonging to different clients. When the holidays hit, the sudden change left me feeling sort…
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Spending the holidays as a freelancer
Working “in the zone”
There are certain parts of the day where we are the most productive. I consider these times of the day for me as being “in the zone”. This time of day occurs around 2-3am, this is when I feel total zen and that I am “at one” with my…
Unemployment is a state of mind
Today marks the last day at my fulltime job. This economy has hit everyone pretty hard. We have already had one set of layoffs in the end of 2008 and just had a second round of layoffs in the begining of Febuary of 09. To say the least, it…
Seriously WTF…
I just got this out of the vending machine at work…

Almost all meetings are useless

90% of all meetings can usually resolved by just using email or any flavor of IM. I know there are situations where actually having to meet up with everybody face to face is just necessary, but unless I am the…
1/23/09 Lunch Notes
- You gotta know what BSG means or else you will be completely lost at lunch
- The pregnant one holds the door open for all the guys, so thoughtful.
- Playing magic on the G1
- Iphone sucks, needs to lrn2MMS
- Discussion on how much table space you need to play magic
- We are so nerdy it…
1/21/09 Lunch Notes
We always seem to have very nerdy and interesting dicussions eat day at lunch and I want to keep track of all the things we talk about.
- How to play magic without getting your cards greasy while eating
- Transcoding torrent downloads
- Why all ferengi’s dont have the clothes around their…
I love unix
At work I basically have a whole rack of Solaris machine (V240/T2000′s) to myself. Some better than others, but I am getting really excited about this one V240 in peticular…
It’s uptime has almost reached 1 year!
root@qa--solaris-v240 # uptime
5:33pm up 323 day(s), 5:42, ...
Everyone is laying off
Yesterday, the company I work for laid off around 20% of its work force, but in this economy I guess it’s no surprise. 20% of this small company meant around 17-20 people who were actually let go. We had to let some really good people go that have even…





