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The Last of OpenSolaris

May 21, 2012

The summer of 2010 was largely a painful mess. I had moved to San Francisco in April, and by late May was very ill with a sinus infection that would eventually require months of antibiotics and two procedures to clear out. On the work side, Sun had been bought by Oracle, and we were in [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: April 2012

May 20, 2012

In reverse chronological order. 2012-04-30 23:57:53 @obscurebug Have a look among your colleagues – they are the principal principle offenders! http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197112569499107329 2012-04-30 23:48:05 @PeterKretzman LOL! http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197110105626525696 2012-04-30 23:30:49 @johnnysunshine For all the people doing it, the companies concerned seem to be largely unprincipled. http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197105758402383872 2012-04-30 23:28:24It’s embarrassing how many people list themselves as “principle” engineers [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: March 2012

May 20, 2012

In reverse chronological order. 2012-03-31 03:01:16 “Under a literal reading of the Bible, I am to be excluded from and unable to inherit the Kingdom of God.” http://t.co/lhj2yfr6 http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/185924695508529152 2012-03-31 01:20:07 RT @dizzyd: Big shout out to @slfritchie about his Dtrace work in upcoming Erlang release — congrats, @slfritchie!! #erlangfactory http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/185899241082851329 2012-03-31 01:16:52 “what separates [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: February 2012

May 20, 2012

In reverse chronological order. 2012-02-29 23:56:37 RT @JeffreyTweeted: RT @sfgmc: In honor of #LeapDay, we’re offering a 20% discount on Enchantingly Wicked tix until midnight! Use “FNF” … http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/175006592633278464 2012-02-29 22:11:32 @jscarp yay! http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/174980144925130752 2012-02-29 21:41:18 @Crescenzo Apparetly it’s a “thing” among certain kinds of sick, twisted people. http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/174972539607597056 2012-02-29 21:30:08 Mothers Little Helper Rolling [...]

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Centro Ippico Lombardo: Gara Sociale 1999

May 12, 2012

My daughter began riding at age eight at the Centro Ippico Lombardo, a stable and riding school near Milan’s San Siro stadium. This was around the same time I was starting to learn to shoot and edit my own video, so I was able to document some of her earliest events. Some of this old [...]

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Loss and Found

April 21, 2012

Every now and then a friend asks how I’m coping with my dad’s death, and I wonder if I’m heartless because I don’t seem to think about it much at all. But there’s a reason I don’t. Loss is old and familiar to me. For one thing, it’s part of the TCK lifestyle: at a young [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: January 2012

February 12, 2012

(in reverse chron order) 2012-01-31 23:40:29 DeirdreS: RT @pbeyssac: OMG! At last! RT @TechCrunch After Four Years, ZFS Finds Its Way To The Mac http://t.co/caiZVG6O http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/164493282955624449 2012-01-31 23:38:23 DeirdreS: Prophetic..? “noticed what we need to mention this morning twenty-one billion scripts it’s possible” @brendangregg http://t.co/V9Q8FtyY http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/164492755505131522 2012-01-31 23:11:31 DeirdreS: @sogrady but what have you done [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: December, 2011

January 1, 2012

(in reverse chron order) DeirdreS: @milouness That would be bad news – look what a huge underground economy has done for Italy http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/152877179003342848 2011-12-30 20:52:04 DeirdreS: Passwords nightmare solved: takeaway for me: “You can’t scale a founder talking about how passionate they are.” http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/152854488523350016 2011-12-30 20:40:46 DeirdreS: @bcantrill You /had/ to get that horrible image [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: November, 2011

December 1, 2011

In reverse chron order. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I’m here to stop it ever happening. http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/142033145183731712 2011-11-30 23:57:56 DeirdreS: @missbhavens Ewwwwwwww http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/142029628024946688 2011-11-30 21:33:34 DeirdreS: RT @bubbva: RT @anuleczka: Shame on you, Apple. Siri can help me find Viagara or a dentist, but refuses to help if I got raped? http://t … [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: October, 2011

November 1, 2011

In reverse chron order. DeirdreS: Gah, jet lag. So tired my ears are ringing, but too much caffeine in me to sleep (maybe). Also: hungry, but too tired to make food. http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/131164910565597184 2011-10-31 20:27:30 DeirdreS: very cool preso on SmartOS by Constantin Gonzalez to MUCOSUG – slides http://t.co/1vVn0ul1 http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/131105034644623360 2011-10-31 20:22:11 DeirdreS: RT @JeriDansky: RT [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: September, 2011

October 1, 2011

(In reverse chron order.) DeirdreS: RT @johnnysunshine: Got the #SmartOS build source out the door. Now it can be both used *and* built ( and custom … http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119932288225124352 2011-09-30 23:36:46 DeirdreS: Time for video editing and tequila. http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119918638479319042 2011-09-30 23:36:12 DeirdreS: @bdha We just nurture and custodiate it. http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/119918496170770432 2011-09-30 22:30:04 DeirdreS: @maltron You’re coming? [...]

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Words about Al

September 20, 2011

Ruth at Al’s Farewell 31 August, 2011 Thank you all for coming today to be with Al ….. When I was trying to plan this Farewell to Al, my brain went into overwhelm several times with the most spectacular episode occurring on Friday night – I wanted to make sure everything was perfect for his [...]

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Dad’s Funeral

September 3, 2011

I didn’t take many photos – too much else to deal with. Ruth asked if I wanted to speak and I supposed I did, but wasn’t sure what I was going to say. I work best to deadlines, so I pulled a few notes together in the car on the way to the crematorium. What’s [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: June 5-August 22, 2011

September 3, 2011

8 years ago: Buffy the Vampire Slayer – My Favorite Obsession @amber_benson# 4 years ago: Growing Up in Boarding School# 2 years ago: Producing Social Media# hmm, seeing spam links on bit.ly again. Does anyone actually see spam when they click on a link of mine?# Dice are rolling, the knives are out…# Spending the [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Aug 23-31, 2011

September 1, 2011

(In reverse chronological order.) DeirdreS: @jasonh Looks like a wallpaper pattern http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/109392325771395072 2011-08-31 20:21:19 ^ Fill in the blank as you deem appropriate. http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108997818932396032 2011-08-31 19:31:28 DeirdreS: I don’t have any recordings of my dad singing. Damn. http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108985272586350592 2011-08-31 14:20:11 ^ Going out in style http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/108906937449590784 2011-08-31 09:08:10 ^ Yes, that is a bamboo casket. [...]

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The Bamboo Casket

September 1, 2011

The Straughan family motto is Non Timeo, Sed Caveo – “I am not afraid, but I’m cautious”. So wrong for my dad.

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My Dad’s Death

August 18, 2011

I haven’t been good at long-form personal communication in the last few years, partly for lack of leisure, partly because, well, these years have been rough on many fronts (outline here). But this seems like a time when telling everybody everything at once will be more efficient, and perhaps easier on me. My father, Al [...]

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Al Straughan, 1939-2011

August 16, 2011

“It’s showtime, folks!” Dad was a huge fan of Bob Fosse, and musical theater in general. He always had a new “favorite song in the world”, but these are a few (and I’ll be adding to them) that typify him in one way or another. Tribute from his friend Celeste: “Al had a positive optimism [...]

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Why Do You Go Away?

July 20, 2011

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” Terry Pratchett in A Hat Full of [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: June 5-18, 2011

June 25, 2011

@NomdeB I don’t think age actually matters. What’s important is to be ready for each other at whatever ages you are right then. # @bubbva yes, that is definitely a good commute. If it’s us time it hardly counts as a commute. #goodcommute # @NomdeB Women often outlive men, so it makes sense for older [...]

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