Tag: work
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Work laptop death – what did I miss the most?
So, my primary laptop at the office died a terrible hardware failure last Friday (no, not terrible in the sense of Dell laptop battery fires, but terrible nonetheless), and I've been using an old Toshiba Tecra 9100 since then (~2 year old laptop). It was slow and painful to use. But what did I miss…
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Aussie Pictures – Posted
Finally, after a one month delay, I've posted my pictures from Australia.
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G’Day from Down Under!
In keeping up with my posting about my travels for work, I'm actually in Adelaide, Australia at the moment doing some work. Adelaide is a pretty cool town, around a million Aussies call it home. Tons to do around town, during our off-days we got to see the McLaren Vale (known for it's wines), Kangaroo…
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Pictures from Taiwan
Are up and ready for viewing.
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Wrapping Up in Taiwan
10:30pm Saturday in Taiwan, and 6:30am Saturday in Seattle. Our work here in Taiwan is wrapped up, and we spent today wandering around the city doing some photography. I should have around 200 pictures to upload when we return. We visited the electronics district of Kaohsiung today. I was a bit disappointed with it –…
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Ahoy… from Taiwan!
Ahh, the first blog entry written from outside of the United States. This week finds me travelling for work in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. I'm currently sitting on the 36th floor of the Grand Hi-Lai Hotel (a 5-star hotel for $90/night, are you kidding me?) overlooking the harbor of Kaohsiung. It's a beautiful town. We left Seattle…
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A Little R&R At Work
I'm all for work life balance. I check the news websites quite frequently at work, I'll check my home e-mail while I'm at work, etc. But when things need to get done, or if there's something important going on, I'll push my personal life aside and bury myself in whatever it is I need to…
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Steve Squyres Visits
Yesterday at work, Steve Squyres came to give a talk to the company's research group, but anyone could attend. So, I quickly made sure my calendar wasn't booked at the time and immediately blocked it off so I could attend. Having just finished his book ( Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the…
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New Addictive Thing of the Day
One word: LinkedIn. Pretty addictive professional networking site, kind of like friendster and Orkut, but definitely geared more towards professional networking. Concept is like a Kevin Bacon six-degrees-of-separation thing, and you can only see people up to four degrees away from you (I think). Oddly enough, by the time I added my second connection, I…
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Sarbanes Oxley and Technology
Does anyone else find it ironic that the two biggest-impact sections of Sarbanes Oxley are good old HTTP return values? 404 and 302. Thanks to Bryan for randomly and unknowingly leading me to that realization.