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Writing May 21, 2006

Esslingen Wine Hike

Rebecca and I had a great time today in Esslingen at the annual Esslingen Weinwandertag, an annual wine hike through the vineyards surrounding the town of Esslingen. We started off in Esslingen and wandered up a path …

Writing May 17, 2006

Finally seeing some services based on Amazon's S3

Months ago Amazon announced S3, which promised unlimited, fast, and inexpensive storage of any kind as a web service. For $.15/gig/month storage and $.20/gig/month bandwidth, it instantly gives anyone with some programming knowledge the ability to use an enterprise class storage network with zero up front cost. Anyway, …

Writing May 16, 2006

Gerber Daisy

Chrys lent me his Canon 100mm macro lens a few weeks ago, and I haven’t really played with it until now. Rebecca and I came back from Obi with a ton of new plants and flowers for our balcony, after we planted them …

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Writing Apr 16, 2006

An amazing juggler

If you like the Beatles, you'll find this video clip amazing. I keep expecting him to drop something, but he keeps rocking out. He's much better than the jugglers I see here on Stuttgart's Koenigstrasse. :)

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Writing Apr 12, 2006

PHP Scalability?

Brian Fioca of Jobby recently talked to Owen Bryne, senior software engineer and one of the co-founders of digg.com, about the scalability of PHP on big sites. It turns out at digg.com, PHP scales really well: To get a better idea of what was in store for a heavily loaded PHP application, I set up an interview with …

Writing Apr 10, 2006

An excellent analysis of software patents

Paul Graham writes some good stuff. I've stumbled across some of this articles in the past and, unlike most of these types of essays from other dot-com millionaires, I've always been very impressed. His latest essay takes on the subject of software patents, a subject that nearly every hacker has an uninformed opinion …

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Writing Apr 6, 2006

Cisco VPN Client and Linux kernel 2.6.15

I’ve always struggled with the Cisco VPN client for linux. It has seemingly never installed smoothly for me, but now I finally have figured out what’s going on. Last week I built a Debian Sarge (stable) box, and installed Cisco’s VPN client v4.7. I used a patched installer I had made a long time ago …

Writing Mar 18, 2006

Stuttgart's Staatgalerie and the Wilhema

Rebecca and I joined another couple and went to the Stuttgarter Lange Nacht der Museen event earlier tonight, and I'm happy to report that we had quite a lot of fun. The basic idea is that for €12, you have a free pass to all of Stuttgart's museums, including other sites like the famed TV Tower and the Wilhema zoo …

Writing Feb 12, 2006

Zooomr, a Flickr challenger?

There's a new photohosting site that just got out of public beta - Zooomr. The similarities between it and Flickr don't just stop at the name - the rest of the site seems to take all of Flickr's good UI points as …

Writing Jan 8, 2006

A New Year

2006 is here, and for the second year in a row I’ve spent the beginning of the new year in Europe. Last year it was Paris, and this year it was Stuttgart, and our Stuttgart experience was about 100 times more pleasant than it was in Paris. Rebecca and I just had a quiet night and watched fireworks from our living …

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Writing Dec 17, 2005

Christmas in Stuttgart

It's amazing to think that I've now been in Stuttgart for 4 and a half months. Only 6 more weeks and I can claim the 6 months mark. Four and a half months doesn't sound too long, but when I put it in terms years - half a year - it suddenly becomes a much bigger amount of time. Four and a half months brings me to the …

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Writing Aug 6, 2005

My New Favorite Chinese Restaurant

I was searching for food earlier this evening along Stuttgart’s Koenigstrasse, and as I was just congratulating myself for walking by McDonald’s without giving into the temptation of a quick, familiar meal, I saw a sign for the China Garden. The sign was right on Koenigstrasse, and it said to go up to the …

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Writing Aug 4, 2005

Two weeks later

Tomorrow marks my first full week of living in Stuttgart. It has seemed much longer than a week, and I’m surprised as I write this that it has only been that short of a time period. It’s been quite a busy week with all of my admin stuff as well as trying to catch up to speed with everything going on at …

Writing Jul 19, 2005

Another week

Today marks the last week that I’ll be in Charleston before leaving for Germany. In some ways I was glad that things were slightly delayed because I got to spend time with friends whom I won’t be seeing for a while. This is going to be a hectic week as I have to start packing and finishing up a ton of stuff …

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Writing Jul 1, 2005

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