I’m making the decision now before thinking about it wastes any more of my time. Indecision and anxiety takes a huge mental toll on me — it always has. I prefer to be sure about the future and have as little on my mind as possible. That drives many of the decisions I make, and [...]
I got some good news on my voice mail this morning – my tax audit is unofficially over. I haven’t mentioned it here before: The “Small Business Self Employed” division of the IRS audited the Schedule C of my 2005 tax return. It took about 2 months of mailing binders of documents back and forth [...]
Bill has an amazing house. It’s built into the side of a hill, so it’s mostly underground. The weather was perfect for a BBQ on the shore of Lake Washington. I am so lucky to have had the chance to meet and talk with one of my idols in person. How could this job possibly [...]
It’s been a week since I started working for Microsoft. So far, so good. The best part of this internship so far is the location. Washington is like one huge suburb. No matter how far I drive in any direction it’s the same — beautiful homes spaced out among plenty of grass and trees, people [...]
For a couple minutes, I just couldn’t figure out why this site had slowed to a crawl. After eliminating more serious potential causes (compromised server, DoS of some sort, etc), and taking a look at the bandwidth graphs, it finally dawned on me. This new server was maxing out its 10mbps port because I had [...]
My cable internet has been up and down (99% down) for more than a day now. I’ve been using my email client refreshing every minute to tell when the connection is up for the few minutes each hour to submit assignments and download final exam study guides. Comcast has nothing to say about the service [...]
“The Daily WTF” has been on my daily reading list for a long time, and I do read it every day. Last week the site changed its name to “Worse Than Failure” and kicked off with an interesting post by Alex on the new name and how it applies to all the programmers that read [...]
