August 2009

“I’m Blogging This for Sun”

August 31, 2009

One of my tasks since I first began working for Sun in 2007 has been to help and encourage others (mostly engineers) to communicate in various ways, including blogs. There are many blogs at Sun (check the lower right corner of that link for today’s numbers), but, as I quickly discovered when I began analyzing [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-08-30: CO

August 30, 2009

@AmberCadabra hit ‘em with a bunch of negatives on Amazon. They’ll learn that can’t be undone. ; ) in reply to AmberCadabra # @stephenfry I am only beginning to understand cricket, but I’m happy for you – altho, from my POV, the wrong team won! in reply to stephenfry # Waiting for the airshow to [...]

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Capitol Reef

August 29, 2009

Capitol Reef was the last national park full of big rocks that we visited on this trip. We arrived in Torrey, UT, the evening before, and had a memorable dinner at Café Diablo – five-star cuisine in a one-horse town (good wine list, too – we had an excellent bottle of Malbec at a very [...]

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OpenSolaris Security

August 28, 2009

A Jack Adams conversation with Valerie Bubb Fenwick at OSCON 2009.

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Colorado River Gorge

August 24, 2009

On the way from I-70 to Monument Valley, you can take this stunning drive.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-08-23: CO

August 23, 2009

^ Congressman Jared Polis at the Sun campus in Broomfield, CO “The actor is in the U.S. to promote, “My Name is Khan,” about racial profiling of Muslims after Sept. 11…” http://bit.ly/DR0af # just published my email newsletter. Ironically, my family are the last (if ever) to read anything I write. You’re never famous at [...]

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Using DTrace to Analyze Your Webstack

August 21, 2009

A Jack Adams conversation with Sriram Natarajan, at OSCON 2009.

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Creating an OpenSolaris Project

August 20, 2009

Jack Adams interviews Alta Elstad at OSCON 2009. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-08-16: CO, UT, AZ, Las Vegas

August 16, 2009

^ the Colorado river gorge, long before it reaches the Grand Canyon. Enrico going to lay down his burdens, presumably. Guy in the next booth at dennys going into great detail about the position of his mailbox. Country life. I feel out of place with my iPhone # Still don’t have twitpic set up right [...]

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Devil’s Garden, Escalante

August 15, 2009

Escalante National Monument seems nearly deserted in comparison with its more famous siblings such as Bryce and Zion. But it’s worth the visit for gems such as the Devil’s Garden: 12 miles down a dirt road, you have your own private wonderland of arches, mushroom rocks, and slickrock to climb on.

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Learn Italian in Song: E Penso a Te

August 15, 2009

And I Think of You Lucio Battisti again. Ran across this on my iPod yesterday and realized I needed to translate it. Io lavoro e penso a te torno a casa e penso a te le telefono e intanto penso a te Come stai e penso a te dove andiamo e penso a te le [...]

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Bryce Canyon

August 14, 2009

^ This shirt is a (brilliant!) souvenir from the Woodstock School class of ’79 reunion. Photo taken at the end of a two-hour hike into the canyon and back (via the Queen’s Garden and Navajo Loop trails), the last bit of which did not do my fear of heights any good at all (notice how [...]

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Zion

August 14, 2009

These Thai women were monopolizing the scenic rocks. Their counting “neung, song, sam…” brought back childhood Thai lessons at the International School in Bangkok. I can still count to ten in Thai!

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Monument Valley

August 13, 2009

^ dunno who this kid was, except that he was French, but he made me a great picture

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