One of the many dishes I did not eat tonight: Looks like it was 50% beef, 50% chili peppers. The entire conference (over 100 engineers) went out to dinner after a pretty full day of presentations. They stuck the two vegetarians (me and Tej) at the same table and gave us over a dozen dishes, […]
I’m in Beijing and checked into the hotel. Extremely nice place. Complimentary broadband Internet. Air China flight 984 from LAX ended up being delayed 12 hours due to mechanical problems. It’s a real bummer, since I was supposed to give a “Platform Overview” talk at the conference this morning, but I missed the entire first […]
My flight to China was delayed 10 hours due to mechanical trouble with the plane. We’re supposedly leaving at 12 noon today, but who knows if that will really happen.
I’m off to Beijing tonight to visit the Yahoo! China office.
Check out this l33t speaker button for ApacheCon 2004: My HTTP Caching and Cache-busting for Content Publishers talk has nothing to do with Yahoo and nothing to do with PHP. 100% pure Apache, baby.
There are a bunch of initiatives on the ballot for the upcoming California and Santa Clara County election. Here is my slate: 1A – yes 59 – yes 60 – no 60a – no 61 – yes 62 – no 63 – yes 64 – no 65 – no 66 – yes 67 – yes […]
Happy birthday, Ariella!
Sukkot starts tonight at sundown — just 15 minutes from now! Hannah (who is visiting from LA) and Ariella decorated our sukkah today. Chag Sameach!
I finally got Ariella’s iBook to print to our Brother 1440 printer via the SMC Barricade 7004AWBR print server. Here’s what I did: System Preferences > Set Up Printers… Add > IP Printing Printer Type: LPD/LPR Printer Address: 192.168.2.1 Queue Name: LPT1 Printer Model: Brother HL-1440 series CUPS.gz I found some other pages on the […]
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, begins tonight at sundown. Here’s a cute 18-second video from Israel. (If you don’t speak Hebrew, here’s the gist: two worms are singing with joy because the apples are soaked in honey.)