meangrape
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Nov 1, 2007
OpenSolaris? It's what we say it is, dammit!
My move to San Francisco and my beautiful new daughter haven't left me much time to blog (or breathe). I have to point out Stephen Lau's excellent post. So many of the people in the OpenSolaris community owe their livelihood to Sun that it's difficult to find opinions …
Aug 2, 2007
OSCON! ZFS!
Here are the slides.
Belatedly, OSCON was great. Meeting the Joyent crew and many of the people involved in OpenSolaris was a real pleasure. The unofficial highlight of the conference was the Sun sponsored OpenSolaris party. Held in the parking garage of the Doubletree …
Jul 24, 2007
Top 10 Most Favorite Tweets
People I frequently favorite (I don't care if you think favorite is a verb or not; I'll use it as I please) are either writers or should be writers. Funny, insightful, cynical, wise, silly -- all squeezed effortlessly into 140 characters. In alphabetical order by …
Mind
The Dosadi Experiment, Destination: Void, Ascension Factor, The Lazarus Effect, Whipping Star, Dune, White Plague, Jesus Incident, Chapterhouse Dune, The God Makers, Dune Messiah, The Santaroga Barrier, The Heretics of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Sundiver, The Uplift War, Startide Rising, Anvil of Atars, The Mote in God's Eye, A Deepness in the Sky, The Forge of God, A Fire Upon The Deep, THE FOREVER WAR, Fundamentals of Number Theory, Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Metamagiccal Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, Chaos: Making a New Science, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, The Selfish Gene, How the Mind Works, A Brief History Of Time, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Real and Complex Analysis, Counterexamples in Analysis, The Language Instinct, In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Principles of Mathematical Analysis, Topics in Algebra, The Light Fantastic, Good Omens, Bill the Galactic Hero, Equal Rites, Ringworld, Red Dwarf, Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Neverwhere, Soldier Ask Not, Gray Lensman, Rendezvous with Rama, Starship Troopers, Red Mars, Green Mars, Beowulf's Children, The Fabulous Riverboat, Stardust, Perdido Street Station, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Neuromancer, The Spirit Of Dorsai, Tactics of Mistake, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Odyssey, American Gods, Fahrenheit 451, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Anna Karenina, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Clockwork Orange, Cryptonomicon, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Heart of Darkness, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Shogun, The Red Tent, The Mists of Avalon, Practical Magic, Linear Algebra, Dynamical Spectral and Arithmetic Zeta Functions, Differential Geometry and Integrable Systems, Complex Geometry of Groups, Complex Manifolds and Hyperbolic Geometry, The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class, Sabriel, Neverwhere: A Novel, Stardust, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Narcissus in Chains, The Laughing Corpse, Obsidian Butterfly, Bloody Bones, Cerulean Sins, Burnt Offerings, Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community, For Hearing People Only, A Journey into the Deaf-World, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, C: A Reference Manual, Solaris Internals, Using MPI, Parallel Programming With MPI, Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World
Passions
cooking, computing, mathematics, scuba, rock climbing, Bryna, Izzie
Always One Foot On The Ground, Jul 18, 2007:
Hey Jay... long time no see. Well your daughter Izzie is absolutely lovely! Congratulations!
Siaynoq, Jul 6, 2007:
Nice to see another Frank Herbert fan out there.
meangrape, Jul 4, 2007:
I hope this background isn't pink. Bit of a bitch being colour-blind.
Sprout!, Jul 4, 2007:
Rocks..