It’s was serendipitous when I found out a friend of mine would be teaching a Machine Learning class — her specialty — and her lectures would be recorded for posterity and she generously offered to let me “play from home.” How could I not seize the opportunity? During the fourth lecture, when she posted a […]
I found out that the North American Handmade Bicycle Show was being held in Portland. I ♥ Portland. I ♥ bike pr0n. The combination? Day trip! (Note: If you’d just prefer to skip ahead to the gallery, click here.) Portland’s about a 3 1/2 hour fugly drive down Interstate 5. For a day trip, that’s
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Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions Elizabeth poses two questions: What would you tell your younger self? It was initially tempting to inventory specific sources of pain and failure and undo those. However, the more I thought about it, the more I believe these were learning experiences that helped me later in life. For example, signing a
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Earlier in the week, we had some snow and sub-freezing temperatures. Most roads are actually fine, having either been sanded or rained on enough to melt anything that stuck. The little connector segment I use to get from West Lake Sammamish (near Sunset Elementary) to Eastgate in Bellevue was pretty bad this morning. I should
Scott gave me this awesome luggage tag to complement the Hello Kitty bag. Now I need to find a business trip! Thanks, John, for bearing with me as I iterated through: “Did that work?” “How about now?” “That help?” while diagnosing my TV antenna blog feed. The problem started a few weeks ago when I
I hate the name “Scrum” as in “Agile software development with a scrum master.” It just sounds too much like “scum” or “slurm.” Slurm-master. Ewwww… The role has been described to me as “one who removes road blocks,” so naturally, when I first saw this month’s IEEE Spectrum cover, I immediately realized that applying a
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For the last month or so, I’ve been having performance problems on my web hosting provider: Process were (and still are) getting randomly killed for allegedly using “too much CPU.” Log file activity had entries like this:[Wed Dec 26 19:43:04 2007] [crit] [client 67.161.90.241] (12)Cannot allocate memory: default_handler: mmap failed: /i/wunderground_dec252007.jpg Disabling some WordPress plugins
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The Outlook “inbox” at work represents things I haven’t processed (responded to, deleted, filed). I’ve been aggressively working to keep it below 20 items, but inevitably after a trip, it bumps back up. It’s above 50, and increasing. This really bugs me, but as I’m pretty exhausted from 2 months of busting the product release