Posted on Wed 22 March 2006 in Family • Tagged with Personal
Courtesy of Jamie Roberts, here is an awesome (and completely unsorted) set of photos from this past weekend's baby shower! Click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version of any given photo.
That's just a teaser, there are many more below if you click the "Continue reading" link...
Thanks …
Posted on Mon 27 February 2006 in Databases • Tagged with Personal
After almost eight years, today is my penultimate day at IBM.
I've done a lot of interesting work for IBM in that time. From learning about Linux back in 1998 by testing the pre-release DB2 Version 5.2 beta for Linux, to writing the original DB2 for Linux HOWTO for …
Posted on Mon 20 February 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
Last weekend I was assigned the task of priming and painting our bedrooms. The previous owners had decided to use bold, garish colours, which meant that I was doomed to prime and reprime before I would even have the chance of adding some of our own "style" to the house …
Posted on Tue 14 February 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
It's 6:15 am on a Tuesday morning. I am sleep deprived and half hung-over from the paint fumes I have filtered through my lungs in preparing the baby's room this weekend. Despite this, I'm anxiously awaiting your arrival at the bus station. It has been days …
Posted on Sun 12 February 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
Hmm... for a good break from my drivel about poker and databases (and, somewhere in the distance, my coffee -- oh my coffee!), try Distant Ramblings. For one thing, the writer is talented. For another, she lives in an extremely interesting place in an extremely interesting time: try Israel, now. She's …
Posted on Wed 04 January 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
I use Serendipity for my blog software. Other Serendipity users will note that I'm pretty much using the default template for the site. Boring! For the most part, that's because I'm more focused on generating content (slim pickings though they may be) versus putting time into design. Substance versus style …
Posted on Thu 22 December 2005 in misc • Tagged with Personal
As a means of conveying information, podcasts suck.
Posted on Sat 15 October 2005 in Gaming • Tagged with Personal
Well, I seem to have caught a bit of the online poker bug. I started playing poker a few years ago on a monthly basis with friends from work, and had a lot of fun, but the frequency died down when the host's first child arrived and I found myself …
A few years ago I had a Neuros 20GB audio player. It met my two primary requirements: Linux-friendly and capable of playing OGG Vorbis files. I have ripped most of my CD collection to Vorbis format, and the files all sit on Linux at home because that's what …
Posted on Mon 08 August 2005 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Personal
While at OSCON, I finally met Zak Greant, the EZ Systems developer and former MySQL Community Advocate from Vancouver who Chris Shiflett had mistaken me for at php|tropics. In an apparent attempt to forge his own identity, Zak had shaved his goatee and grown his hair, making him look …