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China: Go!

2009-10-31T10:43:16Z

As I blogged a few blogs ago, it was supposed to be going to China, but those plans had been changing up until about two weeks ago. Eventually it was decided I'd be going. Hitomi came back that same week (Sunday) and I had less inclination to be ...

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Hitomi's Out

2009-10-14T04:28:02Z

Hitomi (who's in Japan) called me out of the blue. It was good to talk to her. I hadn't talked to her since Friday. I was in the middle of work, unfortunately and had to keep the conversation short. Something threw me off about her phone call. Fo...

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Extraordiary September Weather

2009-09-28T05:50:29Z

Things have gotten extremely busy (comparatively) these past few weeks thanks to a new project/demo we're putting together for a Chinese company. This is all good but I've been less motivated to spend my day in an office due to the incredibly fine...

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Dying Washing Machine

2009-09-16T02:41:31Z

I inherited a Maytag Neptune front loader washing machine with my house. It's been mostly fine until recently. But now the front door no longer unlocks and the washer does not stop when the washing cycle ends. I got a Maytag Repairman (sort of) ...

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Since Vegas

2009-09-15T21:13:09Z

Back to work on Tuesday. Heard some more about my project at work. I'm going to China! But when? Spent some time working on patches for Verizon. Nothing big but the change required fixing about 4-5 build scripts and migrating source repositories....

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Incident at Anime Vegas

2009-09-09T01:31:00Z

(I mentioned being kicked out a concert over the weekend on Facebook. A little background on this first.) Halko Momoi is a very popular singer and voice actor, at least in the anime community in Japan. Definitely one of the top five performers of...

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Oops! Yahoo!

2009-09-01T04:48:47Z

I wonder why I still use Yahoo! as an RSS reader. A lot of the time my.yahoo.com looks like this screenshot: In other news, Microsoft is hiring away developers from Yahoo! ...in hopes in being able to compete with Google.

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MTG Draft Tournament

2009-08-31T19:35:26Z

Spend Saturday cleaning house, with a vacuum strapped to my back. Hitomi was out getting a haircut, eating fresh peach crepes and getting a massage and facial. I was alone and so I had Ian come by early. We went out and watched Ponyo, which was a...

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JBoss Netty

2009-08-28T17:21:45Z

Not sure why I took so long to source a networking library for use at work. I've already wasted so many hours dealing with packet fragmentation, socket handling, and assorted bugs. (TCP isn't a great protocol for sending messages. I await SCTP ado...

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Columbia River Gorge Bicycling

2009-08-24T23:36:36Z

Hitomi went down last year in October and rode along the Historic Columbia River Highway and instead of spending my weekend doing the RASPsody bicycle ride we decided to make a weekend of touring. We rode from Portland into Cascade Locks, spend t...

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