Archive for October, 2005

Perforce

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Wow, it’s been a long time since I last posted. Actually, in all fairness to myself, I have been doing quite a bit of blogging over these past couple of weeks. However, it’s been on my other blog that is only internally accessible to those who have access to the Sun corporate WAN. [...]

The Colbert Report

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

I was skeptical about Stephen Colbert’s new show on Comedy Central (The Colbert Report), but I figured I’d check it out anyways. I anticipated it might be a little too goofy, but it being ultimately grounded in raw political satire, it’s actually very very funny.

ICANN Control

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

A subject of much debate recently is the internationalization of the organization that controls the DNS naming system and IP address mapping infrastructure of the internet. Currently, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible. However, one problem that many foreign nations have is that it is a US based [...]

PXE

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

As you have already noticed, I haven’t been posting as much lately mainly because I’ve been so tired when I get home from work. Probably the most difficult aspect of starting my new job is adjusting to the schedule. For the past year or so in college, I had been able to strategically [...]

Strange Exercise

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

I just stumbled upon this quick mind exercise and it is very bizarre. Try it yourself. FYI I am in the alleged 98% of people.

Observations: First days on the job

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Well I started work at Sun this week and I would say that I’m in a huge adjustment period right now, but one that will be very positive when it settles down. After a few days on the job, there are a number of things worth mentioning:

I’ve only been there a few days and [...]

Papi vs. A-Rod

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Given all of the talk about the AL MVP, I was hoping that I could make my own quantitative, objective comparison of the raw value that both David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez have contributed to their respective teams this season. Unfortunately, I have failed (Gah!). Actually, my original intent was to calculate the [...]