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Much improvement on the haircut front. On the recommendation of a very well groomed waiter at a local fish restaurant I called on Kai at the Reo Morris salon. Kay has a clue about hair. I am no longer shaggy, nor does my hair look like the victim of a tragic weed-whacker incident. Today I . . . → Read More: Big meetings, big haircuts They: “The install hangs at the first screen” Me: “Is there a button on the bottom right labelled ‘continue’?” They: “Yes” Me: “What happens if you click it?” They: “Ummm, we have to go now.” Done with the gig. Day two went much better than day one. They’re up and running and pretty happy about it, from all appearances. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go fall asleep on an airplane. I should have listened when today started with me slicing my hand on the rack where the servers were mounted and quietly bleeding on the machines for a while. Should have called it there. Suffice it to say that we made progress, but that the OS X Gods exacted sweet revenge for every inch of . . . → Read More: Oh man… One of my company’s partners just went live with their product. Orion Multisystems sells a “cluster in a box” made out of energy efficient processors. Up to 96 CPUs pre configured in a single chassis, and you can power it off a single 20A wall circut. You don’t even need the fancy plug. They . . . → Read More: Orion Multisystems. I’m sitting in Baltimore Washington International Airport. It’s bringing back memories of working for a company called ERIM which no longer exists. I spent two summers flying in and out of this airport almost every other weekend. Good times. The airport still kinda bites…but that’s life. Airports aren’t all that much fun by default. This . . . → Read More: BWI On Friday, we had a classic consulting gig. We were brought in to advise on accelerating and parallelizing the processing of gene chips. On walking into the room it was totally clear that we were also catalyzing a conversation that needed to happen between the group who runs the machine, and the groups who use . . . → Read More: Weekend update… |
