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About dre

I like all kinds of food.

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Serenity

I very rarely go out of my way to recommend things like movies or tv shows, but tonight I will make an exception. I just finished watching the last episode of Joss Whedon’s Firefly, and I am seriously in awe. … Continue reading

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NerdTV

NerdTV. Good stuff, interesting insights and anecdotes.

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FSM

This is definitely the most hillarious / astute parody I’ve seen in a long time. I bought t-shirts. Now I just need to find some pirate regalia… Favorite quote: For example, a scientist may perform a carbon-dating process on an … Continue reading

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G5 unsick

After one month and one day in repair, my g5 is finally back in action. The problem was that it would spontaneously reboot when under moderate to heavy CPU load. I deduced that it was a cooling problem by manually … Continue reading

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This is going to sound hopelessly nerdy. I fed my first patch back to the open source community today! It’s for this app called imapproxy, designed to sit between webmail apps and imap servers and do connection caching. It was … Continue reading

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reasonable people

I finally bought the upgrade. Now that LJ supports tags, I think I’m going to start logging new tracks here. Sorry :P 7-5-05 and 10-26-03 are the two vignettes for show and tell today. As you might have guessed by … Continue reading

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Departed SJC at 6:40 a.m –> MSP –> DET –> PIT = *YAWN* Waiting for mom to arrive on her flight from FL. Granddad is picking us up, and does not yet know that I’m here. Mom and I have … Continue reading

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Going to PA for the July 4th weekend for a shindig with the extended fam. Should be fun as I haven’t seen most of them for quite a while The book I contributed to (the firewall chapter) is finally shipping, … Continue reading

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