I met Paul Farmer yesterday. Shook his hand and talked to him and everything. Admittedly, I was at a brunch with about 300 other people, but it was still a pretty intimate setting. He was on his way from Chicago to Haiti, and stopped in to keynote the brunch. His talk was impressive, and I . . . → Read More: Paul Farmer
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Today was characterized by a victory of luck over skill. We were supposed to relocate a 50TB Apple SAN from building A to building B. They’re about 3 blocks apart. Of course, moving 168 disks in 12 chassis, plus seven servers and assorted switches can be kinda tricky. The team moved the gear on Friday, . . . → Read More: Luck I’m all in favor of saving the world – or the finance sector – or the auto industry – or whatever it is that we’re trying to save … but these numbers are getting stupid. P.s: Anyone who has previously answered my complaints about the Iraq debacle by comparing our casualty count with that . . . → Read More: Pictures Kinda sorta in response to a question that technolope asked recently: I’ve developed some reasonably effective habits for keeping myself happy. . . . → Read More: Simple things I’m a big nerd. You all know that. So I’m about to share some nerdy stuff. . . . → Read More: Home Energy Seems that I have not much to say these days. Spent a decent three-day-week in Baltimore, working for a genotyping lab. They’ve got a compute cluster that I built for them a while ago, and it’s been rockin’ at full capacity for some time. They added a bunch of servers and wanted some other changes. . . . → Read More: Post I just want to mention that my friends are awesome. Had four folks over to dinner, including amnesiadust, capital_l, and technolope. Lots of food and wine was consumed. Tomorrow, I’m going to attend an art showing by “the area’s 35 top artists.” Yeah, that’s technolope. Check the article. My friends rule. . . . → Read More: Awesome people 23andme was nice enough to offer me a free upgrade to their “v2” analysis. Given that I bought in at more than twice what they charge these days, I think that’s awfully nice of them. In related news, Promethease is getting downright scary in terms of very specific information about conditions, medicines, and so on. . . . → Read More: Version 2 I am filled with geeky joy that I’ll be at Supercomputing in Austin this week. Reading through the program, I’m struck both by how far my field has come, and how little things have changed. There are sessions on reconfigurable computing, energy efficient supercomputing, yotta-scale storage, and so on. There are also the obligatory sessions . . . → Read More: Conference |
