Talking about Woodstock School on the Kamla Show

This interview took place a few months later, and was shown on a local channel this week, you can also watch it above. It was fun and, of course, I’m always happy to have an opportunity to talk about Woodstock! I also enjoyed chatting with the evening’s other guest, Asha Sharma, author of American in Khadi:… Continue reading Talking about Woodstock School on the Kamla Show

Archived Technical Videos

In early 2010, with the “change in control” of Sun Microsystems (to Oracle) imminent, I started a big job of moving the hundreds of technical videos I had spread among three different Sun media hosting sites. Oracle didn’t want them (and soon afterwards deleted dozens, without warning and with no hope of recovery). One of the… Continue reading Archived Technical Videos

A Twitter Campaign: Social Media Marketing for Tech

One of the things I do in my job (and my life) is social media. I’ve been communicating online since 1982, and have tried just about every major online communications tool to come along during that time, starting with CompuServe chat and BBSes in the early 80s. I began using Twitter in 2007; it has grown to be an important… Continue reading A Twitter Campaign: Social Media Marketing for Tech

Linux Performance Analysis and Tools: Brendan Gregg’s Talk at SCaLE 11x

Linux Performance Analysis and Tools from brendangregg Our friends at SCaLE invited Brendan Gregg to speak (again) this year, and he was happy to return. He developed and delivered a fantastic talk; I filmed, edited, published, wrote a blog post for Joyent, and ran a quick-n-dirty social media campaign (Twitter and HackerNews) to drive traffic to it… Continue reading Linux Performance Analysis and Tools: Brendan Gregg’s Talk at SCaLE 11x

Whole Lotta Videos

Countries Beginning with I: The Trailer This is not all the videos I’ve made to date (for both work and fun), but … it’s 531 of them, some as old as 10 years (recovered from various sources). From one of my YouTube accounts, in reverse chronological order of posting. Running Without a ZFS Root Pool… Continue reading Whole Lotta Videos